OpenKylin: China's First "Independent" Linux Distro

WPS Is Chinese !!!! F**k I need a new office suite ASAP

China has official sanctioned VPN products, that of course connect to China. Other proxies, yes, are technically illegal.
VPN is of course very popular in business applications to connect to business servers from home, etc.

Firefox is a great browser, Google is banned. Maybe opera? But Mandarin Firefox is pretty good.

Qt is pronounced "cute"

OpenKylin is open-source. I don't think that the OS, by itself, will do too much telemetry. Not that it wouldn't be easy to do, but you would have to look at it.

I love how a MATE fork running on Kwin is "very independent".
Also, it's actually a successor to Ubuntu Kylin. It's basically a fork/copy of ubuntu system
Technically, that's a fork of OSS-Code

I haven’t seen any reports of spyware. Seems like an odd assumption. I suppose most people assume anything from China monitors you and sends info to some Chinese mega data server where you are sorted and graded?

I'm wondering if "less" is installed but you just have to give the full path to the bin as your user. I had that happen to me during a debian install once.

I was literally expecting it to be just a fork from something else lol

Got a buddy that worked in chiona a whiole he said you get china VPN's that are targetted for people that dont want info leaked to non China governments

sda5 because it creates then sda3 and sda4 and sda5, then deletes both sda3 sda4 and merge the space between sda3 and sda4 with sda5
You can do the same way of partitioning in ubuntu's ubiquity installer

I'm kind of confused. I wonder if this newly launched 'Open Kylin' is really a re-branding of the Kylin Ubuntu thing, which seems to be dead (links don't work and the last upgrade posted to distrowatch is April '22). So that would explain it being Ubuntu. Both China and North Korea have got into open source Linux in order to create closed source OSes that they want lock-down security on. But if they want something in China, where there is a huge personal computing market on Windows, to compete and displace MS stuff, they would need something like Open Kylin.

* insert "I made dis" meme *

you can't call it a distro, it is not a gnu/linux

Seems looks better than its upstream ubuntu kylin. I will give it a try.

With all the resources china purportedly have, couldn't they have made a much better original Operating System?

we love linux

Certainly one of the grub themes of all time.

it looks like windows 😂😂

So they stole ubuntu. Linuxmint is honest

China pushing every government office using Linux is a good thing...
Our government here some still uses windows 7

Personally speaking, as someone from mainland china, very few people use Linux but windows. And I would assume this is the kind of os that runs on some lab machines in some universities? So here is what is most likely to happen, people don't use the terminal or even don't know it's Linux or even Linux is....

>questions why the boot is 1gb
>my boot on arch is 200mb
damn

Any distro that pretends to be completely independent while just tweaking an existing distro should be avoided. This goes double for those that avoid mentioning Linux.

The partition scheme is normal. sda2 is an extended partition (stores logical partitions, shows as 1kb in lsblk for whatever reason) and sda5 is a logical partition inside of sda2. Reason numbers are skipped is because normal partitions are maximum 4 so it skips them because it's logical. Also about the Ubuntu recovery references in Grub, they are in Debian too. The /boot lines in the file that have Ubuntu references probably gives it away tho

“upon booting your newly installed spyware...” 🙄

Only 5 seconds in and it looks like a mixture of oppo's ColorOS android skin and windows 11

I'm afraid if I start using that CCP gonna find me, and I will be trafficked to china

I will switch to this new OS because of that giraffe wallpaper

Your social credit points in China just went down 1000 points 😂

sad brodie didnt sudo rm -rf / it u.u

That is really weird. I like seeing these strange distros from China. If you find any from other parts of the world please share. I'm glad you explained about the code editor because I've never used VS Code and only seen a couple of screenshots. And I'm curious how big you have your boot partition set and why, because mine is half a gig and only about 6mb is used up.

i reckon sda2 is the extended partition in which sda5 sits

You got Ubuntu all wrong, because China never misappropriates.

I guess "independent" would depend on how much they changed it after they copied Ubuntu's homework...

Most curious. I wonder if the CCP inserted spyware in this "independent" distro? I'd be surprised if they didn't.

Is it independent? Maybe. If they hard-forked Ubuntu and don't rebase their system on new Ubuntu I think it's fair to call it independent in a sense. I mean, opensuse was forked from something else long ago but it certainly qualifies as independent.

Partitions - In old partitioning schemes you could only have 4 primary partitions. In order to get around that you could take the last primary partition and subdivide it into "logical" partitions. I believe these always start numbering at 5, and you do not have to have filled your allotment of primary partitions in order to make them.
So I think what this is is sda1 as the 1G boot primary partition, then sda2 is the "container" primary partition, then sda5 is the first logical partition.

Why is there a giraffe - I don't know. I do know that in Japanese 'kirin' can mean either a mythological unicorn-like creature OR a giraffe. 'Kirin' and 'Kylin' are pretty similar, so maybe Mandarin is the same way? Or of course it could just be a random giraffe wallpaper.

"This APT has Super Cow Powers"

China having anything "open" is awkward... I will never use this "distro" and not curious to try it in a virtual machine... this goes directly to the "junk shelf" of FOSS....
By the way... that "shelf" is growing faster than Linux popularity grows.... that's why Linux popularity is not a "thing" for me...

I am sticking with red star OS .

Brody, you just made big enemies within the CCP.😂😂😂

I think VPN is used to connect to an office. The main purpose of VPNs are to connect to remote networks and making your machine "part of that private network". Public VPNs are marketed as "privacy" and "location spoofing" agents, but that's just a side-effect of VPNs and NOT their main purpose.

I wonder if you will hear "Your bluetooth device is ready to pair" when switching on the Bluetooth xD

Chinese law requires that all software must "phone home" to China :)

OMG ..... This was funny, and typical china approach... copy and past.. and make thing worse ....

I wonder if sda2 is the remains of a swap partition