Red Flag Linux

Red Flag Linux (红旗Linux) is tailored to Chinese needs Linux distribution, for the time being in the Asian region, but later also the world to be a replacement for Microsoft Windows. The distribution is promoted among others by the Chinese government.

History

For the first time Red Flag Linux was released in August 1999., The Linux distribution was developed by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Science. Financial support came from Shanghai NewMargin venture capital, which in turn is owned by the Chinese government. The Chinese state since the beginning supported the development and dissemination of Red Flag Linux so on and financially, but also politically on the market of China. Other partners in the Red Flag project were to start the company Compaq ( later acquired by Hewlett -Packard) and Beijing Founder Electronics.

In 2000, the company Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.. ( often simply called Red Flag ) founded their company is based in Beijing. The company develops since Linux systems and programs for the desktop and server use.

Bloomberg News reported in March 2001 that CCIDNET Investment, part of the Ministry of Information Industry, was the second largest shareholder of Red Flag.

According gartner.com the Beijing Government awarded on December 28, 2001 orders for office and anti-virus applications and operating software at six different local software vendors, including Red Flag, but Microsoft turned, the seventh candidate, from.

Since 2004, China, South Korea and Japan are working together to make on plans to install Red Flag Linux to an important Windows alternative. According to media reports, among other companies, NTT Data, Matsushita Electric, NEC, Hitachi and Fujitsu are to participate in the plans for the development and use of open source software. Was justified this search for a replacement for Windows with the undesirable dependence of U.S. companies such as Microsoft, as well as concerns with protection against attacks by computer viruses. A spokesman for the Japanese trade ministry had, for example, stated that they wanted to develop an open- source operating system, as you have understood that " market dominance by a single company is not good." For Linux also said its stability.

In 2006, Red Flag Linux in China had a market share of over 80 % for Linux desktops.

SAP supports several versions since March 2006 RedFlag Linux. Thus, SAP ERP 2004 SR1 ECC5.0 and CRM 4.0 released on WebAS 6.20 installation. The following versions are allowed:

  • RedFlag Advance Server 4.1 on I386
  • RedFlag Datacenter Server 5.0 on x86_64
  • RedFlag Datacenter Server 5.0 on Power ( ppc64 )

The following databases will be accepted:

  • MaxDB
  • IBM DB2 Universal Database
  • Oracle 9i and 10g

On February 17, 2014 reported the South China Morning Post that Red Flag Linux stand before the corner. This was due to mismanagement of the low levels of awareness of Red Flag Linux, the against great competition like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server could not enforce properly. In addition, the company should have financial problems with payroll and bill payment. Therefore, the contracts are to be terminated on Thursday and the project can be set.

Intent and objectives

The aim of Red Flag Linux is supposed to be there after the presentation of Matei Mihalca to reduce the dominance of Microsoft Windows on the Chinese computer market, which can be achieved by " full transparency in the underlying code " best. Also, cost savings play a role.

The company Red Flag Software focuses on the development and marketing of Linux-based operating systems and the associated application software for various computer platforms to meet the growing demand of Chinese technology users needs.

Red flag uses the office suite StarOffice from Sun Microsystems and used as a desktop system K Desktop Environment.

The Red Flag exercise concluded with Trolltech an agreement to create a platform for embedded Linux systems, which is to be made ​​in China. The procedure, which is behind Red Flag Linux, causes especially Red Flag Linux is available in the shops in addition to other Linux distributions as well. Thus, even PCs with pre-installed Linux sold in China to a large extent, while in Europe with a PC purchase usually is included with Windows as operating system.

Red Flag is working on the Chinese market with companies such as Hewlett -Packard, Oracle, IBM, Dell, Intel and BEA Systems, SGI, Sybase, Haier, TCL and Great Wall together. By using Hewlett -Packard Red Flag Software also to open up the world market in the near future. Because Red Hat intends to expand to China, there was 2004 between Red Flag and Red Hat to a partnership.

Areas of application

For different applications, there are different versions of Red Flag Linux:

  • Red Flag Linux Desktop
  • Red Flag Linux Server
  • Red Flag Linux Server for high performance enterprise applications
  • Red Flag Linux for IBM RISC S/390/Alpha/Intel/PA / Sun Sparc host
  • Embedded Linux OS for set-top boxes, PDAs and thin clients

Included Software (excerpt)

  • K Desktop Environment, Gnome - desktop environment
  • Apache OpenOffice - office suite
  • Opera - web browser
  • Real Player - Media Player

Versions

Softlanding Linux System Slackware License Hewlett-Packard Desktop-Computer Qt Development Frameworks Linux on embedded systems Oracle Corporation Silicon Graphics Great Wall Motors Set-Top-Box
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