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Linux for Asia: Asianux

Posted by michael on from the penguins-not-native-to-asia dept.

kiwimate writes "Two Linux distributors (one each from China and Japan) are building a common Linux platform for Asian companies. Using Oracle software to create the product, which is dubbed "Asianux", they have declared they'll create a common kernel so that the two companies' offerings can interoperate with ease."

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  1. More open source in Asia news... by tcopeland · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...can be found on AsiaOSC.

    There's a note on the front page there about a recent Mongolian Linux release, too.

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  2. This makes a lot of sense by MarkWatson · · Score: 4, Informative
    .. to both cooperate on Linux and base their IT on Linux.

    Personally, I now use Mac OS X (after about 10 years of enthusiastic Linux use :-) but there are several reasons for non-U.S. companies to standardize on Linux and cooperate on region specific versions:

    • Cost savings
    • increased security - not trusting a U.S. company (Microsoft)
    • improved CS education: really learn how an OS works in school by having the ource code
    • good performance on lower end computers
    • easier to create new inovative IT applications when you have control over the entire software stack

    -Mark

  3. misleading writeup by kisrael · · Score: 4, Informative

    Using Oracle software to create the product

    More like "making use of Oracle's software development centre in Beijing"--its a kind of important distinction, otherwise I was wondering what Oracle IDE they were going to use, or database they were planning to build into the distro...

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  4. Re:Maybe I'm just ignorant but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Consider this:
    - Japan has two character systems
    - China is using different character system
    - AFAIK South-Korea is using another different character system
    - Thailand is using completely different character system

    So now we have at least 4-5 different character system in south-east Asia (not counting India). I seriously doubt that any wester n distribution provides excellent support to all those characters.