An open source community 'openKylin' has appeared for China to reduce its dependence on Windows and macOS and develop homemade OS

In order to reduce the dependence on foreign operating systems such as Windows and Mac OS, China has launched an open source community ' openKylin ' to promote the development of proprietary operating systems for PCs. It is expected that the OS ' Kylin ' developed independently by China will be strengthened.

China's first root-community of desktop operating system, Openkylin, makes debut --Global Times
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1269494.shtml

Tech war: China doubles down on domestic operating systems to cut reliance on Windows, MacOS from the US | South China Morning Post
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3183681/tech-war-china-doubles-down-domestic-operating-systems-cut-reliance

Kylindoft, a subsidiary of China's state-owned communications equipment manufacturer, China Electronic Information Industry Group (CEC), has launched a community named openKylin in collaboration with more than 10 Chinese organizations, including corporations promoting information security-related research and development. rice field. This community allows Chinese programmers to publish and share code about Kylin.

Kylin was originally developed by the National University of Defense Technology of the People's Liberation Army of China and has been used by the military and government agencies, but since 2014 it has also been deployed as a commercial application. However, Microsoft's Windows accounts for 85% of the market share of OS for PCs in China, and Kylin's influence is insignificant at present. South China Morning Post estimates that China aims to reduce its reliance on Western technology by expediting the development of its own operating system.

However, it is a big attempt to develop an OS that replaces the mature OS called Windows, which has been developed for decades, and market analyst Liu Dingding said, 'It is difficult to develop an OS and it is eco-friendly. It's even harder to establish a system, 'he said, adding that it's important to form an ecosystem that involves more developers.

China is aiming to expand its domestic technological capabilities by creating its own platform 'Gitee' to compete with the software development platform GitHub.

China is aiming to build a platform based on the domestic service 'Gitee' as an alternative to GitHub --GIGAZINE