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BW: TurboLinux Developing Custom Linux for Chinese Space Agency

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 16, 2000

“TurboLinux, Inc., the high performance Linux company, announced
today a sales and technology agreement to develop a customized
version of TurboLinux called “Space Linux” for the China Aerospace
Corporation.”

“The “Space Linux” customized version of TurboLinux will be used
in selected government projects in the aerospace industry as soon
as the third quarter of 2000, government officials said.”

“Under the agreement, TurboLinux developers and China’s
leading systems integration firm, Huadi, will customize the open
source TurboLinux Linux distribution for eventual deployment
throughout the 280,000-employee China Aerospace
Corporation.


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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