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[News] GNU/Linux Activity Grows in Asia

Asian Linux user groups aim wide

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| One public event the group organized last year was the Beijing Software 
| Freedom Day. The grassroots version of the international event saw some 700 
| attendees and subsequently won the Best Software Freedom Day award from the 
| international panel, alongside Nepal and Nicaragua.   
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| This year, the group helped with the Linux Developer Symposium in February.
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| The BLUG also expects to support two large events at the end of the year: 
| Gnome Asia Summit in September and the OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) 
| 2008 in October. The latter, in particular, will mark the first time OOoCon 
| is held in Asia.    
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62039551,00.htm

Increasing Linux Participation in China: Our Symposium

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| We regularly hold Linux Foundation Symposiums in Japan where key Linux 
| developers meet with local developers to increase participation and encourage 
| collaboration. These events have been very successful. Andrew Morton, for 
| instance, has been quoted as saying he’s seen an increase in successful 
| patches to the kernel from Japan by about 20% percent. While you can’t trace 
| everything back to our regional outreach efforts, I do think it has a direct 
| effect.      
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http://www.linux-foundation.org/weblogs/amanda/2008/03/21/increasing-linux-participation-in-china-our-symposium/


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Linux gains ground in China

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| Linux has been riding on a wave in China, topping the growth of all operating 
| systems in the first quarter of 2007, says an industry analyst. 
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/specialreports/0,39044853,62028679,00.htm


Red Hat sees FY07 greater China sales up 100 pct

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| Red Hat Inc., a distributor of open-source Linux software, expects its
| sales in the greater China region to double in fiscal 2007 and grow by
| 85 percent in fiscal 2008, an executive said on Tuesday. "Our plan is to
| have 100 percent growth this year, and 85 percent growth next year," 
| Michael Chen, general manager of Red Hat China, told Reuters in an
| interview.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20060926:MTFH04213_2006-09-26_06-26-12_SHA306441&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/rdrsg


China puts hopes in Loongson CPU

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| China, which has long wished to develop its own computer industry, has chosen 
| to go with Linux on the software side. Loongson is its hope for the hardware 
| side.  
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http://www.linux.com/feature/119890


CCID Consulting: Industrial Convergence Accelerates Technological Innovation

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| As to the development of operating systems, China has done a lot of R&D work 
| on Chinese Linux, supporting open source codes and its applications. 
| Currently, many manufacturers have developed commercial Chinese Linux 
| operating systems and have applied them to industrial and informatization 
| projects. China has independently developed Red Flag Linux, CS&S Linux and 
| Red Office based on Linux. As to the server operating system, the 
| technological development of Kylin (internal test version) has been completed 
| and provided with independent intellectual properties. Added to this, China 
| has developed Chinese Linux for desktops, CS&S Linux4.0 and Red Flag 
| Linux4.0. As for office software, the large-scale integrated office software 
| Yongzhong Office2003 has been successfully developed with independent 
| intellectual property. KingSoft developed the new cross-platform word 
| composition engine, tabular computation engine and animation play engine for 
| Chinese Linux and put forward KingSoft WPS running on Chinese Linux. China 
| has make breakthrough progress on the application of Linux to servers, 
| embedded systems, Internet and information security. Application software for 
| intelligent mobile phones, STBs, commercial servers and medical appliances 
| have been developed and they present satisfying commercial applications 
| potential and high commercial value...                  
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,211895.shtml


Linux becomes mature and achieves excellence

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| According to statistics from the China Open Source Software Promotion 
| Union, Linux's sales in the Chinese market reached 218 million Yuan in 
| 2006, up 41 percent, and higher than the international average. In 2006, 
| in the domestic market, seven million computers in the domestic market 
| were signed up for pre-installation of Linux, making up 35 percent of 
| the computers in the Chinese market. This all demonstrates that Linux 
| has great development potential. Some domestic Linux manufacturers are 
| also collaborating with international IT companies to constantly improve 
| their product lines. The domestic brand, Linux, has essentially matured.
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http://english.people.com.cn/200706/25/eng20070625_387493.html#9566721867012069773


CCID Consulting: China's Linux Market up by 30.9% in 2007Q1

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| As for industry segments, Linux market growth was mainly concentrated
| in the government, financial services and telecom sectors, which accounted
| for a market share of 34%, 22.5% and 21.2% respectively. 
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http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-08-2007/0004583089&EDATE=
http://tinyurl.com/yooq7a

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