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Red Flag Linux: Real, and Reviewed
Over at NewsForge (NewsForge is part of OSDN, as is Slashdot), Roblimo has posted his impressions of the long-awaited, much-ridiculed Red Flag Linux (English version). It may not be a big seller outside of the Chinese-speaking world (despite the available English-language install), but it's not a hoax, and it's available as an ISO for download. Update from Roblimo: I did not write the NewsForge Red Flag review. Matt Michie deserves all credit for this excellent work.
red flag as in communism?
more to feed the machine that is the chinese government. Its pretty sad how much they isolate themseves on the tech front. While the DMCA is bad enough this (great firewall of china, this, ect) is much worse.
Carpe meam simiam!
You stole that VA backspacing you dick!
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http://www.trollaxor.com/comments/2002/2/20/203
At least use ^H a bunch of times instead of ^W
Oh, and then visit http://www.trollaxor.com/ you fucking chuckleheads.
"1000 Million Chinese can't be WRONG..."
But millions of Chinese are probably CHONG.
"Why?", you ask. Well, let me take a stab at this. American engineers (indeed, Americans in general) are very different from their Chinese counterparts.
When people are being beaten and tortured, "it" bothers us. "It" would bother anyone with a conscience.
By contrast, most Chinese simply do not care. Consider the Chinese in Taiwan and the Chinese in Hong Kong. When the American government and American businesses curtailed investments into mainland China just after the Tienanmen Square incident on June 4, 1989, the Chinese in Taiwan and the Chinese in Hong Kong seized this window of opportunity and accelerated investments into mainland China. Most Chinese engineers and business persons -- indeed, most Chinese in general -- do not give a hoot about the suffering of other people.
I challenge you to prove me wrong. Just look at your Chinese colleague. When was the last time that you met a Chinese who declines to buy products manufactured in mainland China because this Chinese is bothered by what happens in Tibet? In my case, I have never met this kind of Chinese.
On the other hand, I have met several Americans who decline to buy products made in China because the torture and murder of Tibetans bothers them.
Even though we Americans may be engineers, business persons, scientists, etc., we continue to have a conscience -- to retain our humanity -- as we go about the conduct of our ordinary professions. The same cannot be said about the Chinese.
Hence, the presence of "Red Flag Linux" is disturbing to us Americans.