Linux for Asia: Asianux

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Posted by michael on Friday January 9, 2004 @08:44AM 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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Asianux by pheared · 2004-01-09 08:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I guess that's better than Lasia. Not much better though.
1. Re:Asianux by brett_sinclair · 2004-01-09 08:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  And it is (ever so slightly) better than Anux.
2. Re:Asianux by davidhan · 2004-01-09 08:50 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  C'mon, no one said "It should be called Rinux" yet?
More open source in Asia news... by tcopeland · 2004-01-09 08:46 · 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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Chinx by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 08:47 · Score: 5, Funny

was just too politically incorrect.
Complete with by gwayne · 2004-01-09 08:48 · Score: 5, Funny

keystroke-logging lib_bigbrother.so.0 no doubt
What???! *Outrage* by curtisk · 2004-01-09 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

Don't you mean GNU-ASIANUX? *Hrmmmph*

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Rice-Chex by AtariAmarok · 2004-01-09 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

After this is successful, this Oriental version of Linux will be combined with the one being developed for the Czech Republic.

We wish the new "Rice-Chex" project much success.

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Re:Cooperation! by t0ny · 2004-01-09 09:02 · Score: 5, Funny

Cool! Now that countries like India and China are starting to move toward Linux, they can stop writing Windows viruses and begin writing them for Linux.

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I understand the Mongolian Linux by rsilvergun · 2004-01-09 09:09 · Score: 5, Funny

will sweeping through the rest of Asia's IT, crushing foes in it's wake. Hordes of people are using it, you know. (Sorry).

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Re:Maybe I'm just ignorant but... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-01-09 09:12 · 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.