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.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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

    "A bunch of Chinese people made a Linux distro"

    "CHINA MADE A LINUX DISTRO!"

    big difference

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      porky-happy "The hive intellect of the Far Orient has produced an assemblage of code resembling human operating systems"

    • JuneFall [none/use name]
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      1 year ago

      It isn't quite like that, though, cause China did actually give universities and alike grants to further constructing a distro which is suited for needs of people not wanting to rely on commercial OS and also focus on usability for Chinese population. Which is not that hard, but a few UI/UX things are good. If I recall correctly it started with FreeBSD around 2000.

      However I completely agree with you dunk and it is 100% correct.