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Subject: Re: chinese use of FreeBSD?
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On 1/26/07, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
> The freebsd.org "in the media" page says that some people in China are
> using FreeBSD and that lenovo is involved.
>
> http://www.pacificepoch.com/newsstories/82819_0_5_0_M/
>
> Does anyone have more information on this?
>
> Have we received any patches from them?
> Are any of our chinese committers involved with this project?
> Does Lenovo have any support for their hardware for us? :-)

There was a presentation about this at EuroBSDCon. The
idea is sane (FreeBSD kernel + Linux userland + liters
of some glue), the only thing that got me suspicious
was the fact that some of the open-source software to
be produced will allegedly be only available in binary
form and for some money. I guess we were a bit lost in
translation, but that's how it sounded.

The developers want to give back some code, but this
is a government project and it felt like there was
going to be some difficulty...