Linked by David Adams on Wed 24th Aug 2005 07:17 UTC, submitted by wakeupneo
Japan's Miracle Linux Corp., China's Red Flag Software Co. and Haansoft Inc. of South Korea are teaming up to release Asianux 2.0, a Linux distribution meant to compete with Microsoft Windows in their home regions.
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Sorry for my English, I hope my Egnlish teacher won't see my words here. :-)
>I think the only threat to m$ is not linux itself, but the asian countries.
Asian countries don't have a OS developed by themselves. That's why they choose something other than M$.
>If linux can get a grip there, it might make it easier for us: since ms might have to make itself compatible with the competition if it wants market share in asia.
Asianux 2.0 is compatible. But Its compatibility with RHEL4 makes it no different with other RH base distro. I'm just wondering why RH don't do the localization work for Asian people. the Chinese input methord and the documentation is refreshed very slowly.
>And of course, the people there aren't that much brainwashed with the ridiculous m$ way of thinking what a gui should look like.
I agree with you. But after the government (and/or any other employers) has spent tuns of money and time to train her employees to use M$ Office, they may not really want to switch to Linux right now. I think they just use Linux to bargain with M$.