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IBM's Interest in Red Flag Linux

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the blue-and-red-is-purple dept.

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?"

5 of 97 comments (clear)

  1. Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Carnage Blender

    IBM sucks but this doesnt!

  2. Re:I havn't seen any Linux in China by jmpareja · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Most red flags are probably used in Chinese football.

  3. Your sig.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Don't "sign" your posts with your username, it's gay.

    Don't be a prick, signing posts has nothing to do with sexuality.

    1. Re:Your sig.... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Don't be a vagina, name calling should not denigrate the male gender.

      --
      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
  4. fr1st stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Much organisation, fellow traveelers? Han3...don't their hand...she