loongnix operating system for community
loongnix is a linux-based operating system(os) maintained by loongson technology corporation limited (loongson) that
provides services for personal computers, servers, and cloud computing in the generalized
informatization field.
the loongnix ecosystem is based on the concept of “supporting the
development of commercial and customized products based on community-driven os for the downstream
manufacturers. in other words, loongnix, as the source of technology and products, not only supports
brand operating system manufacturers in developing their commercial distribution products, but also
supports cloud manufacturers, oems, and other enterprises to develop their customized operating
systems according to their needs.
loongnix consists of three editions: loongnix, loongnix-server, and
loongnix-embeedded, which target personal computers, servers, and cloud computing, respectively.
throughout the development of loongnix, one should pay special attention
to the two major achievements: compliance with the unified system architecture and the
standardization of the api environment. first, the unified system refers to the interface between
the operating system and the hardware system. in terms of compliance with the unified system
architecture, loongson formulated and released the “loongson cpu unified system architecture
specification”, which supports uefi firmware and system of acpi standards and realizes the
compatibility of operating systems cross motherboards and the compatibility of using different
generation cpus.
it helps loongson in achieving the goal of “any set of loongson operating
systems can be installed on loongson machines produced by different manufacturers at any time”.
second, the api environment refers to the interface between the operating system and the application
software. to standardize the api environment, loongson built a professional team to innovate and
maintain important apis of java virtual machine, browser, and graphics library. by standardizing the
api application programming environment, the r&d team can ensure that the loongnix operating system
is upgraded iteratively while maintaining api compatibility.
for cloud computing, the loongson platform fully supports typical cloud
computing solutions, such as openstack/kvm, docker/k8s, etc. furthermore, users can use and download
mirror images for operating system container of loongnix and alpine released by loongson.
in addition, in the field of display and control, loongnix also launched
the 3d earth display and control middleware—loongearth. its performance is significantly better than
the existing 3d earth display and control software.
positioning and ecosystem
the carrier of achievements for loongson’s ecological construction
the featured products from loongson’s open source community
the reference implementation of loongson’s technical specification
the verification environment of loongson software optimization
the technical source for the downstream manufacturer chain
loongnix is the operating system for loongson’s community
rely on the r&d from loongson’s open source community
“open source, free download”
open source, open to all, cooperation, and sharing
we welcome all institutions and personal enthusiasts to participate
website: www.loongnix.cn
loongnix integrated basic software
kernel
loongson’s product edition based on community long-term support (lts)
operating system base library
file system, package management system, security and auditing, basic graphics image library
firmware support
it supports acpi standard, compatible with pmon, kunlun, byocore, and uefi, and adaptively
provides boot files required by various firmware.
cloud computing
openstack, docker, kvm, ovirt, libvirt, virtmanager, etc.
compiler tool
gcc, binutils, llvm, rust, golang, and other mainstream compilers
browser
it supports html5, webassembly, npapi, css, and other technologies, as well as national
commercial cryptography standards, office plug-ins.
programming language
c/c , c#, fortran, java, javascript, xml, python, ruby, php, perl, etc.
basic media applications
vlc, smplayer, flameshot, openshot, opencv, etc.
api basic environment
java, .net, node.js, qt, electron, cef, vs-code, eclips, etc.
