IBM's Interest in Red Flag Linux

eldavojohn writes "For those of you unfamiliar with Red Flag Linux, it's an OS for the growing Chinese community of Linux users. Interestingly enough, IBM is looking to support Red Flag Linux as the next distribution of Linux that its more than 300 applications will run on. Support from a huge vendor like IBM certainly raises the rate of adoption of a distribution of Linux so this is certainly good news for Red Flag Linux and also the Chinese open source users. IBM currently supports Red Hat and SUSE Linux, which creates twice as much testing for each of their applications. Will Red Flag Linux cause them to require three times the amount of normal testing?"

Comments

There's only one problem with Red Flag Linux

[tomhudson]

... aside from the obvious(it raises a red flag with right-wingers ...)

... an hour after you finish installing it, you want to install it again.

Re:Excerpts from the Red Linux FAQ

[CockMonster]

Oh spot the geographically illiterate yank!

Re:I havn't seen any Linux in China

[chawly]

In communist China it is the footballs which are red - and all your footballs belong to us anyhow ! Flags also - every damned one of them