Talk:Red Flag Linux

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What's the point of red flag linux? Is it just for better asian language/font support? 24.155.227.237 05:00, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

-- Probably just to put out a certain feel/environment that is felt to be comfortable or familiar to some Chinese user set. Note the parallels to NT.

How many langauges is this in? I see only Chinese and Japanese in the pictures. Is there an English version?

I find it somewhat curious that a Chinese operating system would default to Japanese. Are you sure that second screenshot is the "default" KDE setup, or has there been some mixup? --203.206.128.174 01:54, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

According to this, red flag only ships in Chinese and Spanish. http://apcmag.com/6051/the_stoush_over_linux_distributions_using_the_firefox_trademark I'm not sure we can trust that though. Bradkoch2007 20:53, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] speculation

Is there a source for this speculation? "Its name can be interpreted as a pun toward U.S.-based Red Hat Linux, coupled with a reference to the red flag of communism in China", if not it needs to be removed.--Crossmr 20:39, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

I dunno, it seems pretty obvious to me. --Explodicle 15:41, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Red Flag "default screenshot?"

I couldn't help but to notice that the alleged "default desktop" screenshot is in Japanese. I find it difficult to believe that Japanese would be the default language. Snarfies 15:01, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Copied text?

"Red Flag Linux first appeared in August 1999, when it was created by the Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Financial help came from government-owned ShangHai NewMargin Venture Capital. In March 2001, Bloomberg News reported that CCIDNET Investment, a VC arm of the Ministry of Information Industry, had become Red Flag's second largest shareholder."

The above seems to have been picked up from [1] or did they pick it from here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.15.227 (talk) 19:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)