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Ubuntu Kylin is an official Ubuntu flavour whose primary goal is to create a variant of Ubuntu optimised for Chinese users (using the Simplified Chinese writing system), although it also supports other languages. The default desktop is called UKUI (Ubuntu Kylin User Interface) which is based on MATE desktop and is developed with the Qt toolkit. UKUI strives to adhere to the friendly-and-simple design concept. The distribution also includes more than 20 applications developed in-house, including Kylin Assistant, Kylin Video, Kylin Screenshots and Software Center.



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Average visitor rating: 2.75/10 from 4 review(s).


Ubuntu Kylin Summary
Distribution Ubuntu Kylin (formerly UbuntuKylin)
Home Page https://www.ubuntukylin.com/
Mailing Lists --
User Forums https://www.ubuntukylin.com/ukylin/forum.php
Alternative User Forums
Documentation https://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/show.php?lang=cn&id=141
Screenshots DistroWatch Gallery
Screencasts
Download Mirrors https://www.ubuntukylin.com/downloads/DistroWatch Torrent Archive
Bug Tracker https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntukylin
Related Websites UbuntuKylin on Ubuntu Wiki
Reviews 17.04: Linux Journal
14.04: DistroWatch
Where To Donate, Buy, or Try

Recent Related News and Releases
  Releases announcements with download links and checksums:
 • 2023-10-13: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 23.10
 • 2023-04-21: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 23.04
 • 2022-04-22: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 22.04
 • 2020-10-23: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 20.10
 • 2020-04-24: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 20.04
 • 2019-10-18: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 19.10
 • 2019-04-19: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 19.04
 • 2018-10-19: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 18.10
 • 2018-04-27: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 18.04
 • 2017-04-14: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 17.04
 • 2016-10-14: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 16.10
 • 2016-04-22: Distribution Release: Ubuntu Kylin 16.04
 • More Ubuntu Kylin releases...

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Feature 23.10
mantic
23.04
lunar
22.04
jammy
Release Date 2023-10-12 2022-04-20 2022-04-21
End Of Life 2024-07 2024-01 2025-04
Price (US$) Free Free Free
Image Size (MB) 6200-6300 6200-6300 4000-4100
Free Download ISO ISO ISO
Installation Graphical Graphical Graphical
Default Desktop UKUI (MATE) UKUI (MATE) UKUI (MATE)
Package Management DEB, Snap DEB DEB
Release Model Fixed Fixed Fixed
Office Suite LibreOffice LibreOffice LibreOffice
Processor Architecture aarch64, x86_64 aarch64, x86_64 aarch64, x86_64
Init Software systemd systemd systemd
Journaled File Systems Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS Btrfs, ext3, ext4, JFS, ReiserFS, XFS
Multilingual -- -- --
Asian Language Support zh_CN zh_CN zh_CN
Full Package List 23.10 23.04 22.04
abiword (3.0.5) -- -- --
alsa-lib (1.2.11) 1.2.9 1.2.8 1.2.6
amdgpu (23.0.0) -- 23.0.0 21.0.0
bash (5.2.21) 5.2 5.2.15 5.1
bind (9.18.21) -- -- --
chromium (121.0.6167.139) -- -- --
cups (2.4.7) 2.4.6 2.4.2 2.4.1
dhcp (4.4.3-P1) 4.4.3 4.4.3-P1 4.4.1
e2fsprogs (1.47.0) 1.47.0 1.47.0 1.46.5
firefox (122.0) 1 snap snap
freetype (2.13.2) 2.13.1 2.12.1 2.11.1
gcc (13.2.0) -- -- --
gimp (2.10.36) -- -- --
glibc (2.39) 2.38 2.37 2.35
gnome-shell (45.3) -- -- --
gnucash (5.5) -- -- --
gnumeric (1.12.56) -- -- --
grub (2.12) 2.12 2.06 2.06
gtk (4.12.5) 4.12.2 4.10.1 4.6.2
httpd (2.4.58) -- -- --
inkscape (1.3.1) -- -- --
k3b (23.08.4) -- -- --
kmod (31) 30 30 29
krita (5.2.2) -- -- --
LibreOffice (24.2.0) 7.6.2 7.5.2 7.3.2
linux (6.7.3) 6.5.0 6.2 5.15
lxpanel (0.10.1) -- -- --
mariadb (11.1.3) -- -- --
mate-desktop (1.26.2) 1.26.2 1.26.0 1.26.0
mesa (24.0.0) 23.2.1 23.0.2 22.0.1
mysql (8.3.0) -- -- --
nautilus (45.2.1) -- -- --
NVIDIA (545.29.06) -- -- --
openbox (3.6.1) -- -- --
openjdk (21.0.2) -- -- --
openssh (9.6p1) 9.3p1 9.0p1 8.9p1
openssl (3.2.1) 3.0.10u 3.0.8 3.0.2
perl (5.38.2) 5.36.0 5.36.0 5.34.0
php (8.3.2) -- -- --
plasma-desktop (5.27.10) -- -- --
postfix (3.8.5) -- -- --
postgresql (16.1) -- -- --
Python (3.12.1) 3.11.4 3.11.2 3.10.4
qt (6.6.1) 6.4.2 6.4.2 5.15.3
samba (4.19.4) 4.18.6 4.17.7 4.15.5
systemd (255.3) 253.5 252.5 249.11
thunderbird (115.7.0) 115.3.1 102.10.0 91.8.0
vim (9.1) 9.0 9.0 8.2
vlc (3.0.20) -- -- --
wayland (1.22.0) -- -- --
xfdesktop (4.18.1) -- -- --
xorg-server (21.1.11) 21.1.7 21.1.7 21.1.3


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Version: 22.04
Rating: 1
Date: 2023-10-17
Votes: 11


Easily the worst distro I have ever had the displeasure of using. The interface is just broken. The start menu stopped working every time I pinned an application, requiring a relogin. None of the basic apps were present, and the repositories are seemingly empty. First of all, I wanted to run neofetch, and it wasn't installed or in the repositories. Then I tried downloading and running a deb file, and turns out GDebi is not installed and not in the repositories. I tried adding some extra repositories, and it gave me errors. Couldn't install flatpak either.

Finally I decide to download another distro, for which I need a torrent client. I open their software center, and can't find anything there (tried several applications and no results, almost like the search is broken), but surprisingly it tells me I already have Transmission pre-installed. I look in my menu, and it's not there, but sure enough it does run through the terminal. And there were a bunch of apps like that, installed but not appearing in the menu. This is the first time I'm seeing something of this sort.

So anyway, I download another distro, try to run BalenaEtcher as an AppImage, and it doesn't work either (no AppImage support!). I think it required libfuse, which again it didn't have in the repositories. There was no Synaptic or Muon there either to look at packages, and I couldn't install them through either the store or the command line. Couldn't install BalenaEtcher through deb or command line either. It's like a very bare-bones minimal distro with empty repositories for some reason.

I was genuinely stuck. It's a good thing I had another distro (the one I just left) on a flash drive. So, the only way out of this mess was to install that distro just to then switch to another one.


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Version: 22.04
Rating: 2
Date: 2023-08-28
Votes: 3


Intel® Celeron(R) CPU N2940 @ 1.83GHz × 4, 8GB RAM, Intel® HD Graphics (BYT), 240.1 SSD. Today I told myself that I will not pay anything for the test and I will look at this distribution to see if it suits me. The installation ISO is quite large for the Ubuntu flavor (6.3 GB), but there was nothing stopping me from USB booting it and starting a live session. The first impression was quite surprising, the nice Kylin icon also suited the design of my laptop. After booting, it threw me a choice to clean install or try it out. THIS DISTRO CANNOT BE STARTED! After clicking try, only the welcome melody sounds and the screen remains black. If the system has a problem only with the test, what does it actually install on the disk? It looks nice, but like Deepin, it's practically useless.


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Version: 22.04
Rating: 6
Date: 2022-04-24
Votes: 70


Lacks on fx 8350 16 gb ram system too slow for any thing not possible to use. even do not update system
after install but perfect on usb live. why so problematic after install to clean system.. do not connect to smb fıle server, not able to use apt managers. sucks on keyboard types, auto sense not working, setup time is not satisfied gives restriction errors on startup but no log input is seen in the log file, worse then older vers. no helpful desktop shames and the setting menu lacks deep settings like color profiles or fine tunes.


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