In 2002, Galaxy Kirin was launched as a project of the 863 Program, which was developed by National University of Defense Technology. In 2006, the first edition of Galaxy Kirin was completed. It integrates the advantages of mach, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows. In 2009, the national "Nuclear High Foundation" major project was launched, and the Galaxy Kirin continued to iterate. Galaxy Kirin 3.0 began to use Linux as the kernel.
Neokylin's predecessor, COSIXLinux (ChinaSoft Linux), was developed by COSIX (note that it is different from COSIX, an independent UNIX-like operating system developed by ChinaSoft in 1989). Originally published in 1999. In February, 2004, it won the bid to release Puhua Linux 1.0(NeoShine).
20 10 12 16 won the bid to merge Puhua Linux and Galaxy Kirin of the National University of Defense into neokylin.
20 14 12, Tianjin Kirin was established and inherited the brand of Yinhe Kirin. On April 8, 2020, the winning software merged with Tianjin Kirin to jointly develop Galaxy Kirin and New Kirin.
Characteristics of domestic Kirin operating system
First, use a high-performance host
The scheme runs on the geek host with ARM architecture. The host adopts six-core 64-bit domestic processor chip RK3399, and integrates Mali-860MP4 quad-core graphics processor. Configure 4GBLPDDR4 dual-channel memory and 32GBeMMC high-speed memory; Powerful performance makes Kirin system give full play to the performance of desktop system.
Second, compatible with mainstream application software.
It is compatible with web browsers, email clients, image processing, multimedia playback and various management tools, and it is also a WPS domestic office suite, which brings users a convenient office operation experience.
Third, compatible with mainstream software development environment.
It is compatible with QTcreator, Eclipse, Netbeans, Kdevelop, Jbuilder and other development tools, and supports C, C++, Java, PHP, Python and other development languages, providing a friendly development environment for developers.
Fourth, provide rich system tools.
Provide system monitoring tools, account management tools, partition management tools, troubleshooting tools, power statistics, error reporting tools, disk usage analyzer, etc. , you can know the running status of this machine in real time and adjust the operating system flexibly.
Verb (abbreviation for verb) is similar to the interface of Windows.
This system uses XWindows as the basic graphic environment and Gnome as the desktop environment, which provides an operating interface similar to Windows, effectively reducing the difficulty of using the operating system.