LWN: Comments on "A First Look at Asianux 1.0"

A First Look at Asianux 1.0

pczou — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:47:31 +0000

pretty good review, and many good points. below are just some technical clarifications.

> Even worse, there is no easy way to change the language after installation.

yes. no such tool in Asianux. however, in Red Flag 4.1, there is a tool called "changelanguage.sh" which can be used to switch language (Chinese, Japanese and English). it offers both command line and GUI interface.

Asianux just act as basis of some server products of Red Flag and Miracle, some Korean Linux vendors will participate later, and maybe other vendors in the future.

> No wonder that the Red Flag Linux web site is hosted on a server running Red Hat Linux, rather than the company's own distribution!

well, actually Red Flag website is hosted on Red Flag Secure Server 2.0, it may look like Red Hat at first glance, however many security features (such as CFS, Audit, MAC, fine-grind ACL...) are developed exclusively by Red Flag.

> Asianux seems to differ little from Red Hat Linux 9.

well, many enterprise features can only be found in Asianux 1.0, such as LKCD, LKST, Unisys ES7000 support, ESMPRO support, and much better hardware support..., also, Asianux 1.0 offers much better Chinese/Japanese support, much easier Oracle installation support, and many easy-to-use administration tools.

> Another worrying factor is the lack of any package update tool.

yes, Asianux doesnt have any update tool, however, Red Flag 4.1, which is based on Asianux 1.0, does include an update tool.

> why would any user choose Asianux over Red Hat Linux or any other well-established distribution?

well, many, Oracle certifications, local technical support, better interface and localization works, better admin tools...

Pan-asian

donwaugaman — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:25:15 +0000

> Iran is an arabic country with all the consequences (bidi issues mostly, as far as software is concerned).

Iran is Persian, and its language is Farsi, although most people living there will speak or read Arabic.

Pan-asian

evgeny — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 07:32:49 +0000

> Isn't India considered part of Asia? Mongolia? Iran? Thailand?

Mongolia and Thailand are mentioned in the article. But I don't thinks this is relevant. India and Thailand are completely different from the HAN/CJK countries (China/Japan/Korea/Vietnam) in both alphabet/glyph presentation/input methods and cultural etc traditions. Iran is an arabic country with all the consequences (bidi issues mostly, as far as software is concerned). Mongolia uses either a variant of cyrillic alphabet (so any modern Linux distribution would work provided translations are made) or the ancient Mongolian script which isn't a part of the Unicode proper yet, so...

In fact, this Asianux should better be named Hanux ;-), but obviously pan-asian ways of thinking are still in some minds...

Pan-asian

ncm — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 02:46:26 +0000

Isn't India considered part of Asia? Mongolia? Iran? Thailand?