China Launches its own Server Operating System

A panel of experts in China has approved a computer operating system for servers developed in the country.

The Kylin operating system, developed by China's University of Science and Technology for National Defense, was approved by a panel of experts from the state 863 Hi-tech Research and Development Program office, Xinhua, China's official government-run news agency, reported Monday.

The developers of Kylin said it is compatible with other commonly used operating systems and supports multiple microprocessors and computers of different structures. The operating system has been authenticated by the international Linux Standard Base and Free Standards Group.

The developers said the system will be put into service in the financial, government, education and stock sectors.

Kylin History
The Kylin operating system is a server OS focusing on high performance, availability and security, that was first funded by a Chinese government-sponsored R&D program in 2002.

Kylin has been organized in a hierarchy model, including the basic kernel layer which is responsible for initializing the hardware and providing basic memory management and task management, the system service layer which is based on FreeBSD providing UFS2 and BSD network protocols, and the desktop environment which is similar to Windows.

Kylin has been designed to comply with the UNIX standards and is compatible with Linux binaries.