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Asianux is a Linux distribution. It is a joint development between Linux vendors Red Flag Software Co., Ltd. (of China), Miracle Linux Corporation (of Japan- 50.5-percent owned by Oracle Corporation), and Haansoft (of South Korea).
As with most operating systems, it attempts to provide high stability and scalability, while retaining diverse compatibility.
Asianux is considered as a core component, or basis for a Linux distribution, which is to be released later by the above-mentioned companies as their own distributions with specific features. Asianux 2.0 now provides a basis not only for a server operating system but also desktop uses or as a powerful workstation. This distribution applies a server operating system that is being developed. It is to be localized to Chinese, Japanese and Korean as well as English, and developed throughout the companies' respective countries.
As a result, Asianux is included in distributions: Haansoft Linux Asianux 2.0 Server, Miracle Linux 4.0 Asianux Inside and Red Flag Linux DC 5.0 Asianux inside. (
An official release name of Asianux 2.0 is shown at its etc/asianux-release as Asianux release 2.0 (Trinity), and at the same time, in directory etc/redhat-release says Enterprise Linux AS release 4. When you upgraded from another linux distributions, its anaconda installer found this as RedHat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 1).
[http://lwn.net/Articles/89962/ Comparisons have been drawn] between Asianux and United Linux, an attempt by SUSE, Turbolinux, Conectiva and the SCO Group to take on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Release history
The current release version of Asianux is 2.0 (August 31, 2005), which is based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
An initial release was Asianux 1.0, released in 2004. Asianux 1.0 was based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
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