China's Red Flag joins Linux consortium

By Stephen Shankland, CNET News.com
Wednesday, January 12, 2005 10:19 AM
Red Flag Software, a Chinese seller of the open-source operating system, has joined Open Source Development Labs. OSDL is a industry consortium that includes Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, Novell and many other computing companies.

Red Flag will participate in OSDL's three working groups: desktop Linux for PCs, carrier-grade Linux for telecommunications gear, and data center Linux for servers. Executives from top Linux seller Red Hat met with Red Flag representatives in late 2004, but Red Hat Chief Executive Matthew Szulik declined to comment in detail on the nature of discussions.

WORTHWHILE?

0

0 votes
Blog

Talkback 0 comments

There are currently no comments for this post.


Tech Jobs Now!

Search for your ideal tech job:

News from Countries/Region

Use shades of gray to enhance scale in Excel

Microsoft Office Suite

Excel's palette is generous, but don't throw buckets of pigment all over your spreadsheets just because you can.


Read more »



Ultimate 2012 recovery site: the moon

Blog thumbnail

Have you seen the disaster movie "2012"? A friend from Control Risks and I did, and we reluctantly concluded we wouldn't be able to write off the cost of our..... by Nathaniel Forbes

Read more »

Tags

  1. antivirus
  2. apple ipod
  3. cnet networks inc.
  4. desktop
  5. e - mail
  6. hard drive
  7. intuit inc.
  8. mcafee inc.
  9. microsoft corp.
  10. microsoft windows
  11. microsoft windows vista
  12. microsoft windows xp
  13. norton co.
  14. pc
  15. performance
  16. security
  17. software
  18. tool
  19. web
  20. web site