![]() Specifically, openKylin 0.7 uses kernel 5.15 built with GCC 9.3, so we suspect it is based on Ubuntu 20.04 with the HWE kernel. If openKylin is an accurate indicator, then rather than Ubuntu Kylin being based on Ubuntu with the desktop from KylinOS, it's really the other way round: openKylin is based on Ubuntu. Similarly, only usernames are shown on the login screen. ![]() This makes sense for a language that doesn't use an alphabet as such: for example, how would you abbreviate "孫中山"? It also requires at least eight-character passwords. An interesting foible is that this asks you to provide a username for the new system, rather than asking for a full name and then suggest a username based on abbreviating it. OpenKylin has its own installation program. We did that, and it then installed without a hitch. After some tentative exploration, we found the installation program, and in there is an option to use English. By disabling VirtualBox's 3D graphics acceleration, we got to the desktop. Although this vulture's ability to read Zhōngwén is extremely limited, it's not completely nonexistent, and we managed to boot the ISO and log in (the username is openkylin with no password). Out of curiosity, the intrepid Reg FOSS desk downloaded it and gave it a try. The Register looked at the history of KylinOS recently when the project launched a free distro, openKylin (Chinese language link). Strangely missing from the UKUI site is its Chinese progenitor KylinOS, the official national distribution. The only easy way to distinguish openKylin from Ubuntu Kylin is a slightly different logo on the start menu – other than that, they're very similar indeed On the project's community page it also lists Debian, Arch Linux and openEuler. While MATE itself migrated to Gtk3, the developers of UKUI rewrote version 3 using Qt instead – mirroring the move of LXDE's "PCMan" in creating LXQt.Īs its name suggests, UKUI came out of the Ubuntu Kylin project, but other distros use it too. Up to version 2, UKUI was, like MATE, based on Gtk. ![]() UKUI started out as a fork of the MATE desktop (itself an Argentinian fork of GNOME 2). Its Deepin Desktop Environment, DDE for short, is available on several other distros, and there was even an Ubuntu remix, Ubuntu-DDE, but sadly this hasn't been updated for Ubuntu 22.04.Īlongside DDE, the other Sino-centric desktop environment is the Ubuntu Kylin User Interface, or UKUI. The relatively well-known Linux Deepin is an offshoot of UnionTech's UOS. In the English-speaking world, the most visible results are Linux Deepin and Ubuntu Kylin. Given the size of the Chinese domestic market, we suspect that significant elements of the future desktop Linux OSes may come from the direction of the rising sun. This means a big opportunity for Chinese businesses, and real effort is going into desktop software tailored for Chinese users. Although the Chinese government shut down its official Linux flavor in 2014, the 3-5-2 program to reduce dependencies on foreign operating systems is still underway. ![]() This is why The Reg FOSS desk takes a keen interest in Chinese distributions: in this segment, there's active new investment in desktops.
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