Chinese language Linux distro?

[Rick Forrister]

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 23:51, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> For the distro junkies out there:
> 
> We may be needing a Chinese language Linux distro soon. I imagine that
> it means that the GUI is Chinese. (I have seen Chinese command line
> extensions, so this is not as clear cut as one may think.)
> 
> I did a search and did not turn up anything like I expected. Lots of how-Tos
> on getting Chinese characters to work. There is a Chinese translation
> project, but it seems it has been quiet for a bit.
> 
> I recall that the Chinese government has gone for Linux and that there was a
> distro. Oddly, the search did not show this. I also looked at Hancom, as
> they are in that neck of the woods. They do have a nice looking Arabic
> Linux. It is KDE3-based, whihc supports RtoL and Unicode.

Hi Roger,

     What you're referring to is "Red Flag Linux", developed by an
agency of the PRC government, chinese from the ground up.  You can get a
bit more information at <http://www.distrowatch.com/redflag.php>, or
just do a web search for "Red Flag Linux".

best
    rickf

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