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The strong wind - Linux machine to conquer China
Posted by: Trizt on Monday, July 25, 2005 - 17:39
Submitted by Trizt
Today the Beijing science committee has 'released' "The strong wind from afar agriculture version", a community (2800 RMB) and a business (3010 RMB) version with preinstalled RedFlag Linux with many useful Linux applications that can be used for networking, at school and for business, of which 8has been developed in mainland China. The RedFlag has been installed with a simple restore feature, that makes the system to be restored to original settings if someone would have been all to happy root user and ruined the installation. The computers have an Intel CPU directly welded to the main-board.

This is yet another step in Chinas move toward Linux, the whole story can be read in <a href="http://www.redflag-linux.com/jujiao/news_view.php?id=1000000634" target=_blank>Simplified Chinese.

A PowerPC based version of RedFlag Linux will hopefully be released in August.


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Re: The strong wind - Linux machine to conquer China

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by ironfist on Jul 25, 2005 - 17:51
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Red Flag Linux - So you really are supporting communism by using Linux..

Re: The strong wind - Linux machine to conquer China

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by Merko on Jul 28, 2005 - 10:48
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Well, I'm sure this 'Red Flag Linux' contains all sorts of spyware,
censorware and whatever can be expected from the Chinese government.
But then again I don't see how it would be any worse from this point
of view that they are using Linux, than when they pay Microsoft, Sun
or Google to keep their citizens in check. So I guess it's good for
computing that they promote an alternative to Microsoft, it's good for
the Chinese that they get better access to computers (even censored
and restricted access is better than no access) and from a human
rights point of view it's neither good or bad.

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