Everyone knows Windows and MacOs, the American operating systems that equip computers. Here is the Chinese OpenKylin, which moreover looks more like Linux -for specialists- because it is a system called open-source. And this is the first operating system Made in Chinaand therefore an object of pride in a country seeking autonomy in all sectors.
With our correspondent in Beijing, Stephane Lagarde
It’s not every day that a computer operating system ends up in central television news from China. But this is the first homemade one. It has already been tested as part of China’s space program, including the Chang’e moon and Mars Tianwen missions, commentators say, and it is already running at several universities in China.
On May 16, 2023, the “openKylin Campus Salon” was successfully held at Tianjin University of Science and Technology, attended by 240 students. pic.twitter.com/UBGFpJEUfm
—openKylin (@openKylin) May 31, 2023
Immortality…
Kaifang Qilin, translated by OpenKylin, takes its name from a legendary creature from Chinese mythology, like the phoenix and the dragon. Some will see it as a mixture of giraffe and unicorn, it doesn’t matter, the reference is indeed an immortal being, as this operating system must be. open-source which reviewers say will regenerate via user improvements.
As in other areas, in food material for example, China is in search of autonomy and is multiplying the former. She had been looking to create her own operating system for years. A trend that has further strengthened in recent months. Public companies, but also institutions such as certain museums and the Forbidden City in Beijing, for example, have been forced to buy local brand computers rather than foreign models. It takes a large number of users to have the money and the space necessary to detect bugs as quickly as possible, and therefore to improve systems created in China more quickly, an engineer recently confided.
Same thing in terms of automation and robotization: the Chinese president has in recent months set up teams to monitor companies so that the latter are mostly equipped with Chinese equipment.