Asianux


Asianux was a Linux distribution. It is a joint development between Linux vendors Red Flag Software of China, Miracle Linux of Japan, Hancom of South Korea, VietSoftware of Vietnam, WTEC from Thailand and Enterprise Technology Limited of Sri Lanka. It is distributed and marketed by Red Flag Software and Miracle. Asianux is designed as a core component or basis for a Linux distribution, which would be released by related companies as their own distributions with distinct features. Localized languages include Chinese, Japanese, Korean and English. 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 7.0, other earlier releases were version 4.0 and version 3.0.
An earlier release version of Asianux was 2.0, which was based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. The initial release was Asianux 1.0, released in 2004. Asianux 1.0 was based upon Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.