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Deepin

Deepin(Chinese:Chiều sâu thao tác hệ thống;pinyin:Shēndù Cāozuò-xìtǒng;stylized asdeepin;formerly known asLinux DeepinandHiweed Linux[8][3]) is aLinux distribution.It features theDeepin Desktop Environment(DDE), built onQtand available for a variety of distributions. The Deepin userbase is predominantly Chinese, though DDE is in most prominent Linux distributions' repositories as an alternativedesktop environment.The company behind the development, Deepin Technology, a wholly owned subsidiary ofUnionTech(Thống tin phần mềm), is based inWuhan,China.[9][10]

Deepin
Deepin 20.1 desktop, with theQt-basedDeepin Desktop Environment
Native name
Chiều sâu thao tác hệ thống;Shēndù Cāozuò-xìtǒng
DeveloperDeepin Technology Co., Ltd.
OS familyLinux(Unix-like)
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen-source
Initial release28 February 2004;20 years ago(2004-02-28)
Latest release23.0[1]Edit this on Wikidata/ 15 August 2024
Marketing targetPersonal computing
Available inMulti-lingual (more than 30)[2][3]
Update methodDeepin Software Center
Package managerAPT,dpkg[4]
Platformsx86-64,RISCV64,[5]ARM64,[6]LoongArch64[7]
KerneltypeMonolithic(Linux Kernel)
Default
user interface		Deepin Desktop Environment(Qt-based)
LicenseFree softwarelicenses
(mainlyGPL)
Official websitewww.deepin.org/index/en

History

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The distribution began in 2004 as Hiweed Linux.[3]In 2011, the development team behind Deepin established a company named Deepin Technology to support commercial development of the operating system. The company received business investments the same year it was founded.[3]

Deepin Technology joined theLinux Foundationin 2015.[11]In 2019,Huaweistarted to ship Linux laptops pre-installed with Deepin.[12]

TheSouth China Morning Postreported that Chinese microprocessor companyLoongsoncreated a partnership in 2020 with UnionTech andSunwayto develop and promote the Deepin operating system in order to reduce Chinese dependency onMicrosoft Windows.[13][14]

Deepin introduced a new package manager called "linglong" in 2022.[15]

In 2024, Deepin integrated AI into its (new) IDE, photo editing, search (now called "Grand Search" ), and two new chatbot assistants: one for general knowledge and one for knowledge on Deepin.[16]

In June 2024,[17]Deepin announced it was joining the "Prosperity 2036" initiative, whose goal was to establish an open-standard system and open-source software stack based on RISC-V, enabling RISC-V hardware and software "to be recognized as a mainstream instruction set architecture" by 2036.[18]

Starting with the release of Version 23 in August 2024, Deepin began to provide improved hardware support for processor architectures other than x86: install media and packages forARM64andRISC-Vprocessors were added to the existing support forx86andLoongArch.[19][20]

Overview

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Deepin includes a mix ofopen-sourceandproprietaryprograms such asGoogle Chrome,SpotifyandSteam.It also includes a software suite of applications developed by Deepin Technology, as well asWPS Office,[21]360 Security Guard,[22]CodeWeavers'CrossOver[23]and many others.

The development of Deepin is led by China-based Deepin Technology Co., Ltd (Chinese:Vũ Hán thâm chi độ khoa học kỹ thuật công ty hữu hạn;pinyin:Wǔhàn Shēn-zhī-dù Kējì Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī). The company generates revenue through the sale oftechnical supportand other services related to it.[3]As of 1 January 2020, Deepin Technology is a wholly owned subsidiary ofUnionTech(Thống tin phần mềm;Tǒngxìn Ruǎnjiàn).[9][10]The release cycle has followed various schedules but currently aims at four releases per year.[24]Releases are delayed if the work of development and testing has not been completed.

The distribution is widely praised for its aesthetics in various reviews,[25][26][27]while it has also been criticized for various perceived breaches in user privacy.[28][29][30]

Market share

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According to Deepin, in December 2022 the operating system had more than 3 million users worldwide, supported 33 languages, and had accumulated more than 80 million downloads since 2008 (when it was renamed "Deepin" from "Hiweed Linux" and also changed to Ubuntu and Gnome as a basis).[31]

Deepin Desktop Environment

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Deepin features its owndesktop environmentcalled Deepin DE or DDE for short. It is written inQt.[32]The distribution also maintains their ownWindow Managerdde-kwin.[33]The desktop environment was described as "the single most beautiful desktop on the market" by Jack Wallen writing forTechRepublic.[34][35]The DDE is also available in the software repositories ofFedora 30.[34]

UbuntuDDE andManjaroDeepin are community-supported distributions, that feature the Deepin Desktop Environment and some deepin applications.[36]It is also possible to install DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) onArch Linux.[37]

Deepin applications

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Deepin comes with a number of applications built via the DTK (Deepin Tool Kit), which is based onC++andQt.[38]The following is a list of Deepin Applications created by the Deepin development team:[39]

  • Deepin Boot Maker
  • Deepin Installer
  • Deepin File Manager
  • Deepin System Monitor
  • Deepin Package Manager
  • Deepin Font Installer
  • Deepin Clone
  • Deepin Picker
  • Deepin Store
  • Deepin Screen Recorder
  • Deepin Voice Recorder
  • Deepin Screenshot
  • Deepin Terminal
  • Deepin Image Viewer
  • Deepin Movie
  • Deepin Cloud Print
  • Deepin OpenSymbol
  • Deepin Music
  • Deepin Calendar
  • Deepin Remote Assistant
  • Deepin Manual
  • Deepin Emacs
  • Deepin Presentation Assistant
  • Deepin Calculator
  • Graphics Driver Manager
  • Deepin Repair
  • Deepin Editor

Deepin Installer

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Deepin comes with an installer named "Deepin Installer" that was created by Deepin Technology. The Installer was praised by Swapnil Bhartiya writing forlinuxas having "the simplest installation procedure" that was also "quite pleasant."[40][41]Writing for Forbes, Jason Evangelho complained about the installer requiring the user to select their location from a world map, though concluded by saying, "Aside from my little time zone selection pet peeve, the installer is beautiful, brisk and very intuitive."[42]

Reception

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The distribution is generally praised for its aesthetics by users and reviewers alike, such aslinux,[25]Fossbytes[26]and Techrepublic.[27]

CNZZ incident

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When Deepin was accused in 2018 of containing spyware through the use of statistics software within their App Store, the company made an official statement clarifying that it did not and would not collect private user information. According to Deepin, CNZZ is a website similar toGoogle Analyticsthat collects anonymous usage information such as the screen size, browser and other user agent information to "analyze how the Deepin store was being used, in order to improve it."[43]

On 20 July 2018, Deepin removed CNZZ statistics from the Deepin App Store website due to the backlash.[44]

Performance

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Deepin's reputation was that it had relatively high CPU and memory demands when it was still based on GTK and HTML technologies, even when the system was idle.[45]After switching to the Qt-based desktop environment, performance improved, as was noted by Linux in its September 2018 review of Deepin 15.7.[46]

Western concerns about connections to Chinese government

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Radware's head of threat research has commented on concerns about analytics collected by Deepin, and whether these are sent to the Chinese government: while the CNZZ analytics service has been removed, analytics are still collected, now by "Umeng+".[29]According to cybersecurity lawyer Steven T. Snyder, due to the sheer size of Deepin's codebase, it is impossible to really scrutinize all the code comprising it to be sure the Chinese government doesn't have backdoors.[29]The project does remain fullyopen sourceallowing anyone to review, modify or change the code to meet their standards.[47]

See also

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References

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