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Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited)
Guardian Unlimited
examines a collaborative Linux effort between North and South Korea.
"Under the banner of "Hana Linux" - literally "One" Linux - the two countries have agreed to work on a groundbreaking IT development project that might shatter the final Cold War boundary.
South Korea is one of Linux's biggest converts. Since discovering the free operating system in 2003, officials have unveiled plans to switch all government-run offices to Linux. Now under the terms of the agreement signed between the two states, South Korea will set up Linux training centres in North Korea."
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Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 20:10 UTC (Thu) by charris (subscriber, #13263) [Link] ...might shatter the final Cold War boundary.Sure, OS incompatibility is the outstanding difference between the two countries. I think this is more in the nature of ping pong diplomacy.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 20:18 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] """ Sure, OS incompatibility is the outstanding difference between the two countries. """ I disagree. It is DE compatibility and choice of underlying programming language which weighs on the minds of these two peoples. The OS itself does not matter that much.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 21:12 UTC (Thu) by smitty_one_each (subscriber, #28989) [Link] >The OS itself does not matter that much. Sure, it's all information, but the _cost_ of the OS (and sudry programs) is an economic point that bears mention. The combination of robustness and cost avoidance may prove a stimulus for NK. The litmus test of this line of discussion is if, reprising OLPC, Mr. Softy has to butt in.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 1:41 UTC (Fri) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Choice of programming language is moot. The true root cause of this conflict is that NK love emacs, while SK prefer vim.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 9:45 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (guest, #15263) [Link] Damn, then thermonuclear war is unavoidable. - Unless they unite against the pico loving Japanese.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 22:02 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] So Emacs starves your population, forces you into isolationism and militaristic insanity, *and* corrupts your precious bodily fluids? (Japan uses XEmacs, of course.) ;}
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 19:02 UTC (Fri) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804) [Link] Plus, for any secure web transaction in South Korea, you have to run IE on Windows, which makes a Linux distro pretty useless on the desktop there.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 20:34 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I request the following protocol: when a headline is something that an LWN editor is themselves saying to their subscribers, it appears without quotes, e.g.: A kernel security hole. When a headline is something that is being cut and pasted from a news source which is more prone to inaccuracy and sensationalism than LWN is, then the headline is shown in quotes as well as having an attribution after it in parentheses e.g.: "Can Linux finally unite Korea?" (Guardian Unlimited).
"Can Linux finally unite Korea?" (Gabbing Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 20:36 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] I'm sorry, my request was ambiguous. What I meant was: please put all headlines which you got from someone else in quotes, even if you got them from one of the few other on-line publications which are as judicious as LWN is in choosing headlines. Thank you.
"Can Linux finally unite Korea?" (Gabbing Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 20:52 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205) [Link] It would seem to me that the parenthesized publication name at the end serves the same purpose and is already there. jake
"Can Linux finally unite Korea?" (Gabbing Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 10:09 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link] How should headlines that themselves contain quotes be handled?
"Can Linux finally unite Korea?" (Garbling Unlimited) Posted Jan 18, 2008 14:32 UTC (Fri) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Nested quoting. I was taught this in high school English. When I read something from someone without quotes around it, then I hear that person's voice saying it to me in my head. It's like Cook walked up to me at the local coffeeshop and said "Can Linux finally unite Korea?". This sounds stupid to me -- I want to say "Cook, what the hell are you talking about?". Then I realize that Cook wasn't saying that to me, he was showing me that someone else had said it. That's different.
Guaridan Unlimited? Posted Jan 17, 2008 21:24 UTC (Thu) by nigelm (subscriber, #622) [Link] Unfortunately for the humour content, the Guardian's old nickname of the Grauniad is no longer so appropriate (they bought a spell checker). I guess its probably worth fixing the spellung misteak in the first word of the article :-)
Spelling nothing---they haven't caught up to 2008 Posted Jan 22, 2008 22:18 UTC (Tue) by Max.Hyre (subscriber, #1054) [Link] With just weeks to go before South Korea's presidential election at the end of last year
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 17, 2008 22:37 UTC (Thu) by s_cargo (guest, #10473) [Link] Oh yeah. Firstly, all software will have to be tailored to pay homage to the great leader. Secondly, they will have to explain to the majority of the NK populace what a computer is. Then they will have to explain why the populace should care about something they can't eat or wear. The only "web site" available will be the great leader's.
Can Linux finally unite Korea? (Guardian Unlimited) Posted Jan 19, 2008 19:59 UTC (Sat) by mmarkov (guest, #4978) [Link] """Can Linux finally unite Korea?""" No, it cannot. North Korea is a totalitarian state, the closest approximation there ever was to the world of "1984". To think that the totalitarian machine can somehow dismantle itself out of good will and enlightment is hopelessly naive. Of course, by "unite the Koreas" one typically imagines the totalitarian state being peacefully taken over by and incorporated into the civilised one (like the Germanies in 1989), not the other way round :-)) I thought Guardian was leftist but moderately so. Are they of the crazy, our-of-touch-with-the-real-world sort?
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