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Linux-OS: Ubuntu Kylin 20.10 — Chinese Linux OS for Chinese Market

 

Ubuntu Kylin logo from linux-shop.info

Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu flavour whose primary goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu optimised for Chinese users (using the Simplified Chinese writing system), although it also supports other languages. The default desktop is called UKUI (Ubuntu Kylin User Interface) which is based on MATE desktop and is developed with the Qt toolkit. UKUI strives to adhere to the friendly-and-simple design concept. The distribution also includes more than 20 applications developed in-house, including Kylin Assistant, Kylin Video, Kylin Screenshots and Software Center.

— Distrowatch.com

Qilin (Kylin) is a beast from Chinese mythology. Kylin was developed in 2001 by academicians at the National University of Defense Technology in the People’s Republic of China.   versions were FreeBSD based for Chinese military and other government organizations. Later, Kylin 3.0 was moved to Linux kernel and was called NeoKylin, announced in Dec 2010. In 2013, Canonical (parent company of Ubuntu) collaborated with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China to co-create and release an Ubuntu-based OS targeting the Chinese market under UbuntuKylin. 

Ubuntu Kylin Desktop image from sempreupdate.com.br

 This is a specially custom Chinese Linux OS for China market. Since China putting its weight into this Linux distribution, you can see more creativity in design, similar to Deepin (UbuntuDDE).

Below are some applications that come with the default installation: 
Package manager: Kylin Software Center
Office: WPS Office
Media player: Kylin video player
CD & DVD burner: Kylin Burner
Input method: Youker Fcitx, Sogou Pinyin
File manager: Peony file manager
Web browser: Firefox

    If you prefer Chinese Operating System(OS), you can consider this as it is basically for you out of the box. There is little you need to tweak for Chinese language on this system. I have not played much with it since I am not comfortable with a Chinese OS. I have used UKUI on Sparky Linux and so far it is not bad but still some bugs on this distribution, like setting crashing when changing setting on Accounts autologin. I set to on with Sparky Linux during installation caused this. 

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