Website: https://www.openkylin.top/index-en.html
Git repositories: https://gitee.com/openkylin
I haven’t tried it myself yet but I might give it a spin since it has a unique Desktop environment.
Website: https://www.openkylin.top/index-en.html
Git repositories: https://gitee.com/openkylin
I haven’t tried it myself yet but I might give it a spin since it has a unique Desktop environment.
Deepin is Debian based. The linked article says OpenKylin was made from scratch - whatever that actually means.
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Well I did hear that the scratch programming language was turing complete.
Correct me if I’m wrong but I’ve read that OpenKylin is Ubuntu based somehow.
From my so far limited experience of playing around with it for 30 minutes in a QEMU KVM, it does use the
apt
package manager but a quick look at/etc/apt/sources.list
tells that they use their own repositories. Looking through the repositories of what they have to offer it seems that they aren’t just mirrors from another distro but actually maintain their own packages and port some Ubuntu packages. A look through their Kernel Configzcat /proc/config.gz
tells that they compile their own custom Kernel as well. Also it doesn’t usesnap
at all, but they do offer it in their repositories. And for some reason there is dockerd/containerd pre-installed and pre-configured on the base System. My guess would be that they use docker for the Mobile apps, but I can’t verify this right now since every time I try to install a Mobile app from the Software Store it tells me that I can’t run a VM inside a VM. And unfortunately I don’t have some spare Hardware to test at hand atm.To answer your question; It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages. But I can’t say for sure, since all of the documentation on their git repositories is written in mandarin.
Yeah, probably it just uses the tools like apt that also ubuntu uses. Though there is a Linux Youtuber who said “since the word “ubuntu” appears in the grub config file then it’s not an independent distro”, and I don’t understand his logic, OpenSUSE uses rpms like Fedora but is considered independent. 🤔