Red Hat Establishes Fedora Mirror Site in China

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi

>
>Now, I have a few questions:
>
>1. was RH ever going to ask/consult/tell us about
>fedoraproject.org.cn /before/ its inception? 
>
>I find this lack of communication not positive
>  
>
Agreed.

>2. Is the content there going to be localised? Last I checked, RH
>Beijing was hiring ~80 staff (earlier this year), so how important is
>RHEL/Fedora there?
>  
>

 >3. Competition from Sun Wah Linux and Red Flag linux (I think they're

>now a fedora/chinese spinoff) is rife. Thoughts? 
>  
>
Not many ideas but I will share some information. Miracle Corporation 
(Japan) , Red Flag (China) and Haansoft (Korea) have formed 
http://asianux.com. Its a  Red Hat Enterprise Linux spinoff with a 
heavily themed Anaconda and a general Windows like look and feel. These 
along with Turbolinux seem to be popular in this region.  SCIM input 
method ( in rawhide) with a strong native language support should put 
Fedora on par

Download

http://www.asianux.com/download.php

Some articles and screenshots

http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050929#1
http://distroreviews.com/index.php?view=140
http://lwn.net/Articles/149978/
http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=428&slide=22


regards
Rahul