RE: Anti-Reds at Red Hat?

[Scott Stone <SStone@example.com>]

I dont know what the current state of TurboLinux-Chinese is, but what I
remember from meeting the people who at the time were putting it together
was that I sent them the latest TL-jp, and within about 2 weeks they had the
thing working in Chinese, i18n-ified (ie, not localized, but
internationalized.  I could still use English on their system).  I'm not
sure if the jp and cn stuff were working concurrently in all cases, but I'm
sure at least xemacs was handling it correctly :)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com>
Senior Technical Consultant - UNIX and Networking
Taos, the Sysadmin Company - Santa Clara, CA


-----Original Message-----
From: jwb@example.com [mailto:jwb@example.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2001 6:03 PM
To: tlug@example.com
Subject: Re: Anti-Reds at Red Hat?


>> From: Jonathan Q <jq@example.com>
>> Dennis McMurchy (denismcm@example.com) wrote:
>> 
>> > Maybe there's a special PRC version of RedHat?  ....
>> 
>> 1) TurboLinux has been in China for a couple years or so
>>    and is fairly well-entrenched, I would suppose;
>> 
>> 2) There is a native Chinese distro, Red Flag Linux, produced
>>    with the blessings (and, I believe, financial assistance)
>>    of the Chinese government.
>> 
>> Looking at those, it may be the case that Red Hat just
>> thinks it isn't worth their while to pour time and money
>> into Chinese support in their distro at this time, especially
>> when they'd probably sell roughly one legit boxed set

This exchange set me thinking about what it takes to assemble a Chinese
distro. Do TurboLinux or Red Flag attempt to restrict their
catalogue/message files? Presumably they are open source as much as
anything else.

I would hope that eventually whether a packager like RH had a "Chinese
version" was not really the issue of what to put in the CDs, as they
should all be there, but what language to have a manual in, whether to 

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