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Chinese distro (OpenKylin) made to provide independence from western technologies releses its first stable version (news.itsfoss.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BrenoMartins@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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OpenKylin is already starting to be implemented on government systems and private companies all around China.

Edit: This is what was written on the website.

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[–] modulartable@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm surprised the CCP hasn't rolled out their own distro! It's 2023 what are they waiting for!?

[–] vanderbilt@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

This has actually been a long time coming. The first iteration was a FreeBSD-based distro back in 2013. Then an Ubuntu variant replaced it shortly after. The DE is UKUI, and it’s what « makes a Kylan » it seems. openKylin seems to be an all-around improvement over Ubuntu Kylin, and it uses APT as well. It looks pretty, but things still need some serious polish.