Hubei University "Deepin Technology Scholarship" was established by Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. to reward those students who are interested and gifted in and passionate about Linux software development and who can design original outstanding works. This scholarship was set up to encourage students in Hubei University to participate in Linux community activities actively to enhance their programming level and competitiveness in employment. By now, "Deepin Technology Scholarship Competition" has been held twice. The 3rd competition is about to be held this year!

Time flies. It has been two full years since we announced that we were to develop our own desktop environment. During this period, there were both support and opposition voices outside, and a small number of people even ridiculed us, saying that there weren’t teams at home who had abilities to develop desktop environment independently at all and we would only conduct some simple modifications to the existing desktop environment at best and then bluff people into believing that we would release a "domestic desktop environment". But we resisted the pressure without any fraud and have been dedicated to hard ...Read more

Internationalization Team members: Hello. Thank you very much for your strong support to Deepin projects. With your efforts, the translation rate of 14 languages of Deepin system has exceeded 90%. Currently there are 83 languages being translated. In the future, in order to improve translation quality of the software in Deepin system, we will only use the translation results approved by the reviewers (only those translation results approved by the reviewers can be used on a large scale). At the same time, we also have taken the following measures: Having deleted the outdated projects. Having merged the branch languages nobody ...Read more

This autumn is cool and osmanthus is fragrant. We are about to welcome the National Day of this year. At this time when the long-awaited festival is coming, Deepin Team wish the community team and all users a happy National Day in advance! China's National Day: On October 1st, 1949, People's Republic of China was founded, so October 1st of each year is set as China's National Day. During the National Day period, various commemorative activities are held all around the country. People have a holiday of 7 days. Many people will choose to go out to have a relaxation ...Read more

  World Software Freedom Day (SFD for short) is a global activity joined by common people to promote open source software. The open source teams worldwide will organize a wide range of celebrations to celebrate this Day. The celebrating activity is scheduled on the third Saturday in September each year. Software Freedom Day in this year is on September 20th. The following are some universities or organizations where this year’s SFD activities have been decided to be held. There will be more colleges and universities or organizations to join and be updated in succession here! Shanghai Linux Users Group (A ...Read more

With the continuous development and users’ increase of Deepin system and in order to facilitate users to update the system and install the software more quickly, Deepin has now established 70 mirrors in the world, covering 24 countries and including: 3 official mirrors 26 domestic mirrors 41 overseas mirrors   Here we specially thank Hanzhou Zhihe Tianzuo Network Technology Co., Ltd. (supplying flow with MoeDN) for its providing Deepin with two overseas official mirror services: In Canada: http://ca1.packages.linuxdeepin.com/ In Japan: http://jp1.packages.linuxdeepin.com/

Today, Deepin newly adds four mirror services, which are in Turkey, France, Canada and China respectively.  On behalf of Deepin Team, I sincerely thank everyone of you for your strong support to Deepin!   DGN Mirror Site in Turkey We thank the strong support to Deepin from DGN Technologies Information Publishing Corporation. Currently this mirror site only supports Http protocols. Its address is as follows: http://mirror.dgn.net.tr/deepin/   Graysun Mirror Site in France We thank the strong support to Deepin from Tristan, a French fan of Deepin system. Currently this mirror site only supports Http protocols. Its address is as follows: http://graysun.org/deepin/   ...Read more

Now when you use Deepin Installer to install Deepin 2014, you just need to fill in user information, choose the hard disk or partition where you’ll install Deepin 2014 to complete the installation and configuration without manual partitioning, which greatly lowers the threshold of installing Linux system. But we still retain the expert mode of manual partitioning. This time we’ll briefly explain the operation of the expert mode of Deepin Installer.   Mount Point’s Setting   If you want to use the expert mode of Deepin Installer, you need to have some understanding to the mount points (partitions) of Linux ...Read more

Hello, everyone! I’m Cathy Lin, a new member of Deepin team. I’m very glad to meet you here. Most of the articles published in our English blog in the recent month were translated by me. Hearing translating articles on computer science and technology, many people would think it is dull and boring, but I’ve never thought so. I’ve learned a lot in doing this job. I not only have improvement on my English translating ability, but also have a deeper understanding and awareness of the relevant principles of computer configurations and operations. And more importantly, after entering Deepin, I met ...Read more

  Many users who newly use Linux system may habitually apply the related concepts on operating system under Windows to understand Linux system. Here let’s take a look at the several most frequently encountered problems of new users in using Linux system.   Q: Why can’t we enter password in the terminal? A: Actually, the case where the password cannot be entered in the terminal doesn’t exist. Since the user's password is very important in Linux system, the password is not echoed by any symbol after being entered in the terminal and other procedures. Such a design is to avoid ...Read more