I moved a post to a new topic: Bandwidth vs quantity of information
Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, cooperates with the China government. China chooses Ubuntu as state-endorsed operating system - CNET
Do not choose Ubuntu please.
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Hereās what they were actually doing:
According to Canonical, itās working alongside the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology to bring a suitable Ubuntu version to China. The operating system, which will be known as Ubuntu Kylin, is expected to be released
in April [2013].
Thatās an old article, and the OS is already available. I donāt see anything bad coming out of it since, so your fears are groundless.
At any rate, unless there is something substantial, such as proof that a backdoor is installed, I donāt think it factors into our decision to broadcast or not broadcast.
EDIT: Also to throw my 2c against Ubuntu, Iām more concerned about the Amazon thing they āinventedā. But again, since itās going to be broadcast to people who generally donāt have Internet, I donāt think thatās such a big deal.
hi ,
as a linux user on kde (kubuntu) for almost a decade now, i have to say i really dont understand the discussion here about Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Puppy and you could say a couple more.
they ALL install .deb packages as far as i knowā¦so without a doubt bringing a .deb package for outernet would open up the world to those few linux cracks always searching to get things running.
i guess it would be a tremendous boost for the community and the ācooperationā ;-).
but thats just my two cents
greets heka
As a Linux user, I can say maintaining support for various desktop distros is going to be difficult. 
Tho, I believe the original topic was which desktop Linux distro should be broadcast, not supported.