The Asianux 2.0 Linux distribution hit the streets of China and Korea Asianux is the joint effort of companies in China, Korea and Japan with the backing of government and multinational heavyweight Oracle Despite its ostentatious goal of being “the” Asian Linux, Asianux enters The Asianux effort is currently made up of three Asian Linux companies, Asianux officially got underway Much like Intel’s “Intel Inside” branding campaign, Asianux 2.0 is The three Asianux 2.0 distributions Asianux 2.0 includes the 2.6 Linux Kernel as well as enhanced RAS Carrier Grade A modified version of the KDE desktop Localization in the form of Chinese simplified “The release of Asianux 2.0 is significant since it has been specifically The Asian Linux market however is already being hotly contested with In April, Turbolinux claimed it was the Linux leader in China, based on the IDC report “China Linux 2005-2009 Forecast and Analysis.” According to the report, Turbolinux had a Novell Novell has since launched a dedicated Chinese language site for its “The list of customers and partners we have in China is growing rapidly,” Sun Wah Linux is a home grown Asian Linux distribution as well, that will “In general, Sun Wah Linux is happy to see more community effort in Banh however does not see Asianux as a threat and he doesn’t see it as a “Asianux is only a co-operation between three companies in China, Japan, and “Sun Wah Linux is based on the Debian project which is a global effort
today, signaling the further rise of the joint Linux development effort against competing Linux distributors such as Novell , Red Hat
and Sun Wah Linux.
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an Asian Linux market that is already extremely competitive with Novell,
Turbolinux, Red Hat, Sun Wah Linux and others all jostling for a piece of
the world’s fastest growing economy.
Red Flag Linux of China, Miracle Linux of Japan and Haansoft Linux of Korea.
in January of 2004. By April of 2004, it had already certified 40
vendors on the platform. In July of 2004, Oracle threw
is weight behind Asianux by bumping Asianux to its world-class Linux
support program. Asianux 1.0 was launched a year ago in July 2004.
marketed by each of the Asianux partners as “Asianux Inside” as part of
the companies’ respective product names.
are expected to be called “Haansoft Linux 2005 – Asianux Inside” by Haansoft
in South Korea, “Red Flag DC Server 5.0 – Asianux Inside” by Red Flag in
China, and “MIRACLE LINUX V4.0 – Asianux Inside” by MIRACLE LINUX in Japan.
(Reliability/Availability/Serviceability).
Linux specification compliance is also part of the platform, which promises improved availability and reliability.
environment called ReFineD, developed by Red Flag, serves
as the GUI
and traditional, Korean, Japanese and English language support is also a key
part of Asianux 2.0.
developed to be distributed to the Asian market,” Haansoft spokesperson John
Kim told internetnews.com. “As you may know, the U.S. market has Red Hat
while Europe has SuSE. With this in mind, Asianux 2.0 will solidify its
position as the leading distributor of Linux OS in Asia.”
Novell/SUSE, Turbolinux, Sun Wah Linux, Red Hat and others all competing for
share.
62 percent market share based on server revenues in 2004.
has claimed that it leads the Chinese Linux industry in revenue.
openSUSE project, which allows Chinese software developers to plug into a
global Linux distribution.
Novell spokesperson Bruce Lowry told internetnews.com. “We think we are
well positioned in the Linux environment there.”
also compete against Asianux. Sun Wah recently
released its Debian based enterprise Linux distribution RAYS ES.
Asia,” Alex Banh, CEO of Sun Wah Linux, told internetnews.com.
global platform either.
Korea,” Banh said. “I do not see it as a threat because after all, it’s only
another Red Hat clone.”
and we are a member of DCCA which is also another global effort for
co-operation,” Banh explained. “Scale does matter and I think the Debian
project represents a much more solid platform.”
The Rapid Rise, Release of Asianux 2.0
