• knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Deepin is Debian based. The linked article says OpenKylin was made from scratch - whatever that actually means.

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      1 year ago

      Well LFS has been written by people all over the world, and the source code too. So I wouldn’t agree with it being the 1st. It ciertanly is Chinese though, just like deepin.

      Also it’s nice to see them reach 1.0

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        From my so far limited experience of playing around with it for 30 minutes in a QEMU KVM, it does use the apt package manager but a quick look at /etc/apt/sources.list tells that they use their own repositories. Looking through the repositories of what they have to offer it seems that they aren’t just mirrors from another distro but actually maintain their own packages and port some Ubuntu packages. A look through their Kernel Config zcat /proc/config.gz tells that they compile their own custom Kernel as well. Also it doesn’t use snap at all, but they do offer it in their repositories. And for some reason there is dockerd/containerd pre-installed and pre-configured on the base System. My guess would be that they use docker for the Mobile apps, but I can’t verify this right now since every time I try to install a Mobile app from the Software Store it tells me that I can’t run a VM inside a VM. And unfortunately I don’t have some spare Hardware to test at hand atm.

        To answer your question; It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages. But I can’t say for sure, since all of the documentation on their git repositories is written in mandarin.

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          It seems like an independent distro utilizing the apt package manager and porting some Ubuntu packages.

          Yeah, probably it just uses the tools like apt that also ubuntu uses. Though there is a Linux Youtuber who said “since the word “ubuntu” appears in the grub config file then it’s not an independent distro”, and I don’t understand his logic, OpenSUSE uses rpms like Fedora but is considered independent. 🤔