The release of the independent Linux distribution openKylin 1.0 has been introduced. The project is being developed by the China Electronic Corporation with the participation of more than 270 different Chinese organizations, educational institutions, research centers, software and hardware manufacturers. Development is carried out under open licenses (mainly GPLv3) in repositories hosted on gitee.com. Ready installation builds of openKylin 1.0 are generated for X86_64 (4.2 GB), ARM and RISC-V architectures in editions for PC/laptops, tablets and boards. ARM builds support boards such as Raspberry Pi, Cool Pi, and Chillie Pi, while RISC-V build supports VisonFive2, HiFive, SG2042 EVB, Lichepi4a, and Lotus2 boards.
As a user environment, the distribution uses the UKUI (Ultimate Kylin User Interface) shell, which adheres to the classic desktop organization model for PCs and provides an optional mode for tablets, controlled from the touch screen and supporting the on-screen keyboard. Initially, the user interface was founded as a fork of the MATE desktop, but was subsequently almost completely redesigned and translated into components written in C ++ using the Qt library, but partially borrowed from KDE or created from scratch.
The main panel uses a fork of the panel from the LXQt project, but the sidebar and menu are created in-house. Window management uses a window manager forked from KWin that supports X11 and Wayland (selectable on the login screen). From KDE, the application control center and configurator are also involved. The PipeWire multimedia server is used to control the sound. Peony is offered as a file manager, a fork of Caja / Nautilus rewritten in Qt from MATE.
Of the specific features of openKylin, the Graded Freeze process lifecycle management mechanism stands out, which allows you to freeze unused applications without shutting them down, but returning the resources allocated to the processes to the system. Graded Freeze also makes it possible for different application classes to have different execution and resource consumption priorities.
The distribution also has built-in tools for integration with mobile devices running the Android platform, organizing interaction between system devices and Android devices, sharing the screen, synchronizing files and searching. To run mobile applications written for Android, a special KMRE environment is provided. The launch of Windows applications is provided using Wine.
openKylin 1.0 is announced as a distribution that supports its own, independent of other distributions, package base. Packages are hosted in a format in repositories reminiscent of Debian and Ubuntu (it was previously stated that openKylin continues the development of Ubuntu Kylin). The distribution comes with its own installer and includes the Linux 6.1 kernel. Firefox is used as a browser, and WPS Office is used as an office suite. To listen to music and watch videos offered its own multimedia player. The distribution meets the security requirements of communications, transportation and energy enterprises, as well as government and financial institutions in China.
Source: opennet.ru
