Kylin

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Kylin
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Kylin Linux 4.0
developer University of Defense Science and Technology
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Current  version 6.0
Kernel Monolithic kernel
www.kylinos.com.cn

Kylin ( Chinese  麒麟 , Pinyin Qílín , named after the mythical creature Qilin ) is a Chinese operating system that was developed at the University of Science and Technology of National Defense in Changsha from 2001 . The first versions were based on FreeBSD and were intended for Chinese government and military authorities.

history

KylinOS has been developed by the National Defense University for Science and Technology since 2001, initially funded by the 863 program , and from 2006 by the Fund for National Scientific and Technical Large- Scale Projects, and was first published in 2006. The aim was to create its own operating system for the Chinese region so that it would no longer be dependent on other countries and their technology, in this case on Microsoft and its Windows operating system family . The operating system was a FreeBSD distribution based on FreeBSD.

In February 2006, "China Military Online" (the then online edition of the People's Liberation Army newspaper or 解放军报) reported on the successful development of the Kylin server operating system. This is the first 64-bit operating system that would achieve security level B2 and is also the first operating system that does not have a Linux kernel , but has received the global standard authentication from Linux.

In 2009, it became known that China was using the operating system on military computers to make them more resistant to cyberattacks . This was found out during an active attack from China. According to a security advisor to the US government, this is an obstacle to attacks by the US on Chinese systems, since the relevant personnel are only trained on Windows, Unix and Linux. Analyzes of the kernel indicate that it has been hardened.

In 2013 it was announced that they were working with the Ubuntu manufacturer Canonical to develop a new version of Kylin. According to the plans of the Chinese government not to use software products from other countries, the WPS Office Suite, Baidu Maps and other Chinese software products are used in this version of Ubuntu . However, it should only be a successor that is only distantly related to the original.

However, since 2010 there has been a new version of Kylin OS called NeoKylin (银河 麒麟, Pinyin Yínhé Qílín or 中标 麒麟, Pinyin Zhòngbiāo Qílín ) and based on the Linux distribution Fedora . This version tries, like the first version, to mimic Windows.

In 2013, the Chinese supercomputer Tianhe-2 operated with Kylin OS made it to number 1 in the TOP500 . In a LINPACK benchmark, it achieved a performance of 1902 MFlops / watt.

NeoKylin

This is the successor to the FreeBSD-based predecessor. NeoKylin has been developed by Shanghai-based China Standard Software Company since 2010 and ran on more than 40% of the computers Dell sold in China in 2015.

In a test by Quartz it turned out that the operating system limits which programs can be installed. It was not possible for the tester to install the Google Chrome browser developed by Google , so that one has to fall back on the pre-installed Mozilla Firefox browser or another.

However, it should be possible to bypass this installation lock by using the package manager YUM to install programs and adjust settings. All places where YUM normally looks for programs seem to be deactivated in NeoKylin and have to be added manually by editing system files.

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Web links

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Kylin Operating System of superior performance developed ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
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  6. ↑ China installs a proprietary operating system on its military PCs [update]. May 15, 2009, accessed May 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ubuntu Kylin is to become the reference system in China. March 23, 2013, accessed May 25, 2019 .
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