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Red Flag Linux Distributor Joins OSDL

Posted by Zonk on from the welcome-your-communist-brethren dept.

segphault writes "Ars Technica reports that Red Flag Linux has joined the OSDL." From the article: "Founded in 2000 through the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Red Flag's Linux software line includes desktop, server, and embedded Linux distributions. Red Flag's products are extremely popular in China, where their desktop Linux distribution is favored by many developers. Red Flag frequently collaborates with other Linux distributors in the region, like Korea's Haansoft and Japan's Miracle Linux."

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  1. What I'm curious about is... by mmThe1 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    .... by joining OSDL, are they going to "commit" some of their resources for research/development *online* only? What difference does it then make if the company is in China, or any other country then? The article focussed much on growth of Linux in China, rather than 'Red Flag', OSDL, and whatever they are planning to do.

    1. Re:What I'm curious about is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The more Chinese taking up Linux, the better as it will only increase marketshare for the OS and encourage more developers to port/write programs for it.

      The rate of consumer growth in the major Chinese cities is astounding and likley the reason why the article focuses more on that.

  2. Link by Life700MB · · Score: 3, Insightful


    Here's the link to the official red-flag linux web.


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  3. Re:A disturbing development by Neo-Rio-101 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    YES! Next time YOU buy a kitchen knife - you're telling companies that it's OK to make knives which may be used to KILL OTHER PEOPLE! THE BLOOD WILL BE ALL OVER YOUR HANDS!

    Next time YOU buy a car, you are voting with your purse strings and ENCOURAGING people to smash their cars into pedestrians in hit and run accidents? Is this the country we fought to win?

    WHEN YOU BUY ALCOHOL, you are signalling to the rest of the country that YOU ACCEPT a DRUNK SOCIETY. Let's ban ALL ALCOHOL so that will never.... oh,..... what that? They tried that already and it didn't work?

    *whistles and twiddles thumbs*

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