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Welcome to Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.
redflag-linux.com - 12/4/2008
Welcome to Red Flag Software Co., Ltd.
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Chinese Home | Products | Download | Tech Support | Training | Red Flag Focus | Partners About Us Introduction Memorabilia Contact Us Red Flag partners Singapore’s Resolvo to promote Linux desktop adoption Guadec 6 announces ...
linuxoniphone.blogspot.com - 12/4/2008
Linux on the iPhone
— linuxoniphone.blogspot.com — Donate your time and skills if you can rather than money. If you cannot do so, please consider sponsoring something we could directly use: Such as a USB serial cable (about $45 for parts from Sparkfun ), or perhaps upgrading the Slicehost slice we're ... (more) Linux on the iPhone

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10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free [GigaOM]
gigaom.com - 12/3/2008
10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free [GigaOM]
— gigaom.com — Netbooks are all the rage at the moment, with Asus predicting that it will sell 5 million of its Asus Eee PC netbooks by the end of this year. However, one of the tricky aspects of netbooks is that they have much more limited hardware resources than ... (more) 10 Ways To Trick Out Your Netbook for Free [GigaOM]

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[Phoronix] Steam Client For Linux Confirmed: Linux Libraries Appear In Left 4 Dead Demo
phoronix.com - 12/1/2008
[Phoronix] Steam Client For Linux Confirmed: Linux Libraries Appear In Left 4 Dead Demo
— phoronix.com — Earlier this year we shared that Valve's Source Engine is coming to Linux after receiving some information that pointed in this direction. In addition, a year ago Valve Software was publicly looking for a senior software engineer to port Windows-based ... (more) [Phoronix] Steam Client For Linux Confirmed: Linux ...

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Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk:  Why is China forcing people to use Red Flag Linux?

Open Source:  Is China an open source friend or foe?

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Why is China forcing people to use Red Flag Linux?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... - a Linux distro known as Red Flag. According to our report, the move is being painted as an attempt to stop cafes using unlicensed software - but has raised questions about possible snooping. ...

Is China an open source friend or foe?
Open Source — ... is government-sponsored, is it not still open source code? If backdoors are going into the kernel users can see them, or at least the CIA can. As opposed to, say, Windows. ...

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