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Sina Science and Technology News on the afternoon of September 5, the operating system, as the soul of the information industry, needs to be mastered in its own hands, no matter from the perspective of information security or from the perspective of industrial development. Recently, Wang Yaohua, general manager of the desktop operating system product line of Sina Science and Technology Dialogue and head of the open source community center, said that self-control seems to be official, but it actually represents a kind of ability. the realization of independent control requires a long time of technology accumulation and precipitation.

Data show that shipments of Linux desktop operating systems in China accounted for just over 5 per cent in 2021. The replacement and development of domestic operating systems is not only pressure, but also full of opportunities. Wang Yaohua predicts that by 2025, China's PC shipments will exceed 50 million units per year, and the market share of domestic operating systems will exceed 20%. China will also become the largest Linux desktop market, with the ability to develop an independent ecological foundation and lead the development of Linux desktop systems.

Autonomous control represents an ability that takes a long time to precipitate in mid-August, when the deep open source community of Uni-Credit Software officially released the deep operating system deepin V23 Preview. According to Wang Yaohua, the deepin V23 Preview released this time mainly contains three core features: the brand-new V23 warehouse, which will gradually be in line with the top international mainstream releases such as Debian and Arch Linux in the future; atomic update, which can ensure the integrity of operating system upgrades; and self-developed software package format "exquisite", which can effectively deal with various compatibility problems caused by the complex dependency relationship of traditional software package format under the Linux system.

In Wang Yaohua's view, at present, most enterprises in the domestic IT industry are talking about independent controllability. Although this seems to be very official, in fact, autonomous controllability represents a kind of ability. " You can skillfully control every technical aspect that involves the operating system kernel, system components, technical architecture, relationships between components, and desktop environment, and you can fix it quickly when there are security vulnerabilities in the system. then the problems will no longer be terrible, and the security problems of the supply chain will be guaranteed. "

According to Wang Yaohua, the operating system based on the "root community" means that it is built directly from the Linux kernel and source code, does not rely on the upstream release, and has its own ideas and innovations in the system architecture. At the same time, we also hope that based on this operating system, more developers can participate in it and work together to build a wider community influence and prosper the ecology of the operating system.

Up to now, the Deep operating system (deepin) has been updated more than 200 times, more than 80 million downloads worldwide, and more than 3 million overseas users worldwide. In Wang Yaohua's view, due to different user attributes, different groups want to achieve different goals in the open source community. However, as a community form evolved from the programmer community, the open source community naturally tends to pursue technological innovation and technological ideas. at the same time, it is very important for the development of the open source community to build an open, transparent and easy-to-coordinate community ecology.

"We hope that a large number of developers will be involved and continue to inspire vitality." Wang Yaohua said.

Domestic operating system shipments will account for 20% in 2025. At present, Windows and macOS are absolutely dominant in the market share of domestic desktop operating systems, with a market share as high as 90%, while domestic operating systems based on Linux are about 5%. The gap in market share brings difficulties for the formation of the ecology of domestic operating systems and the promotion of market share.

Wang Yaohua predicts that by 2025, shipments of Linux operating systems in China will account for 20 per cent of total market shipments, reaching 10 million units a year, and the overall market share of desktop operating systems in China will exceed 10 per cent. At that time, China will become the largest Linux desktop market, domestic operating systems will also have the basis for the development of independent ecology, and then begin to lead the development of global Linux desktop systems.

"if the shipping volume exceeds 20%, it will reach a new level. at this time, whether it is the business model or the construction of the whole ecology, the support of each enterprise may be different." Wang Yaohua said. According to him, based on the industry survey data and the results of communication with the competent authorities and other units, "We are relatively optimistic about the forecast of annual shipments of 10 million units in 2025."

On the general trend, with the policy level paying more and more attention to information security and network security, as well as incidents such as Win7 suspension and security loopholes in some foreign countries, although the user experience of domestic operating systems is limited, it will eventually become better as the ecology develops to a certain stage. " Under such a trend, there will always be manufacturers who can see the opportunities in the market, and there will be people who will invest and participate in the industry. "

Wang Yaohua saw that at present, the development of the domestic desktop operating system industry is still facing problems such as talent scarcity, and the domestic operating system still has a long way to go from easy to use to first-class and then to super-first-class. Tongxin is also vigorously promoting open source culture and training open source talents, speeding up the cultivation of open source communities, open source foundations, open source agreements and open source projects, and building a security base for basic software from the source.

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