Vlogcanic

Asianux is a distro developed by four asian Linux corporate developers in Japan, China, Korea and Vietnam: Miracle Linux, Red Flag Linux, Haansot and Vietsoftware, respectively.
Initially based on Red Hat Enterprise, the goal for this distro is not exactly to go for the final user but to build a standard common core over which the four developing companies’ products can be deployed.

Today’s release (3.0) spans three ready to download .iso images, available for the most common architectures.

I’m obviously not reporting this becaue of my huge interest in installing a Linux distro with an asian language as the default (although my machines have so many asian parts that maybe such an OS would get along better with the hardware) but because this distro’s development could be of consequence in the next few years. If this asian quartet achieves the goal of a standard common core for custom and general corporate aplications they could, at some point, just turn their attention to western markets and give Red Hat and Novell a bit of a hard time.

Time will tell.

Pioneer Linux 3.0, a commercial desktop oriented Linux distro based on Kubuntu, released today. As its progenitor, Pioneer can be used as a LiveCD which also installs itself to a hard drive. It aims to ease the transition from Windows to Linux.

The main advantage to Pioneer Linux is in the seven year technical support available to users buying the packaged version –there is also and unsupported free version ready to download.