China is doubling down on Linux in a bid to leave Windows behind
China is now one step closer to eliminating Windows from its government endpoints, an effort it has been pursuing for more than two decades now.
As reported by The Register, the country has been laser-focused on switching to Linux (opens in new tab) entirely amid conflict with the US, but has thus far lacked the support of developers. But now, all of that might change with the launch of the openKylin project (opens in new tab) .
The project’s goal is to speed up the development of the Kylin Linux distro, an OS distribution that’s entirely China-made. The project’s participants will include developers, but also colleges and universities.
So far, upwards of 20 Chinese firms and institutions have joined the project, it was said, including China’s Advanced Operating System Innovation Center.
At this stage, the members will work on version planning, platform development and community charter. But in the mid- to long-term, project members will seek to optimize the OS for the latest generation of Intel and AMD chips, provide support for RISC-V CPUs, develop x86-to-RISC-V translation layers, improve the interface and so on.
