China's Linux for the home market, openKylin, reaches 1.0

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China's openKylin 1.0 arrives. Our verdict? Not a bad-looking, er, Ubuntu remix

, but it had no problems with VirtualBox's 3D acceleration and didn't default to dark mode as that release did.The default web browser is Firefox, and the office suite is WPS Office. There's a Chinese language app store, complete with a Mobile section for Android apps, although the Kmre runtime wouldn't start under Virtualbox.

As in previous versions, there's a Weather app with an indicator in the taskbar, but it only supports cities in China. The onscreen keyboard now has a floating button, and slightly confusingly, as well as a keyboard language indicator, there's also a separate one for the floating button. There are also taskbar buttons for configuring VPN connections and a voice assistant, although this didn't work in a VM.

of Microsoft's VSCode. Under the hood, there's no Snap or Flatpak support, and some typical tools are't installed – for instance, we were surprised to find thepartition and the rest of the OS in a logical drive, and surprisingly, no swap partition

 

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