[ Thanks to Philip
Dodd for this link. ]
“In last month’s report on a Chinese effort to build a
home-grown Win98, we appealed for further enlightenment on the
nature of the project. Well, it’s taken a while, but a kindly
Chinese speaker has done some digging, and reveals it’s
Linux-based, and GPLed.“Thanks to the unnamed translator for the following, and to Mark
for passing it on. The apparent involvement of the Taiwanese
government, alongside Linux International, is particularly
interesting:“Called Yangfan Linux, which means ‘raise the sail’ in Chinese,
the open source operating system is being pieced together by the
Beijing Software Industry Productivity Center, a group established
by the government to organize Linux development in China. Now six
months in the making, Yangfan has been installed on 2,800
government computers, replacing Windows and in some cases early
versions of Linux already running inside the government, The source
code for Yangfan was made available last week under the GNU General
Public License. The group is now collecting feedback and will
continue improving the operating system…”