China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S. technology.

China has released its first homegrown open-source desktop operating system, named OpenKylin, state media said, as the country steps up efforts to cut reliance on U.S. technology.

Released on Wednesday, and based on the existing open-source Linux operating system, China's version was built by a community of about 4,000 developers, and is used in its space programme and industries such as finance and energy, they added.

  • mkultrawide [any]
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    1 year ago

    They have to release an Excel competitor to win the global market.

          • captcha [any]
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            1 year ago

            The VBA editor is the gold standard of IDEs. +3 decades of Microsoft Office and that thing is exactly the same.

            • Flyberius [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              I love how a dialogue box pops up if you are half way through a line and want to click somewhere else to copy or check something. All just to tell you that you haven't finished the line. Thankfully there is a setting buried somewhere to turn that off.