This post was originally published in French only. We translated it in 2026 so the archive reads the same in both languages. Read the original →
Last week, the Chinese government and Canonical announced that a new version of the famous Ubuntu Linux distribution would be produced specifically for the Chinese market. On the list: a few adaptations for the Chinese population. Actually, what will be interesting is comparing the files present in the Chinese version of Ubuntu. Will we find backdoors or other interesting surprises? Maybe not in the first releases, but what about the later ones? Despite the suspicions such news can raise, it is still probably excellent news for the open source world! Either way, it's an interesting piece of news that deserves attention.