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Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS Installation and Review on VMware

This tutorial shows how to install Ubuntu Kylin 16.04.1 LTS and review on VMware Workstation/Player step by step. It also helps for installing Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS on physical computer or laptop. We'll also install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools) on Ubuntu Kylin VM for better performance and usability.

Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS Installation Steps:

1. Download Ubuntu Kylin 16.04.1 LTS ISO
2. Create Virtual Machine on VMware Workstation/Player
3. Start Ubuntu Kylin Installation
4. Install VMware Tools (Open VM Tools)
5. Ubuntu Kylin Review

Installing Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS and Review on VMware

What is Ubuntu Kylin?

Ubuntu Kylin is an official flavour of Ubuntu. It is a free PC operating system created for China. It includes all the features you’ve come to expect from Ubuntu, alongside essential Chinese software and apps. The project provides a delicate, thoughtful and fully customized Chinese user experience out-of-the-box by providing a desktop user interface localized into Simplified Chinese and with software generally preferred by many Chinese users.
Ubuntu Kylin Website: https://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/ubuntu-kylin

Ubuntu Kylin 16.04 LTS New Features and Improvements

In this release, they have fixed many internationalization and localization bugs in Ubuntu itself and bugs in software written by the Ubuntu Kylin team. All the work that Ubuntu Kylin team do is within the Ubuntu community and ecosystem and as such they are flowed back to Ubuntu itself naturally and everyone using Ubuntu can benefit the result of that work. This release is based on 4.4 linux kernel. The core applications have been updated to their latest versions:

1. Firefox 45 
2. Thunderbird 38.6 
3. LibreOffice 5.1 
4. Chromium 49 
5. Nautilus 3.14

Besides a plethora of bugs fixed in this milestone, several Ubuntu Kylin specific packages have also been updated:

1. ubuntukylin-theme updated to 1.5.4 
2. ubuntukylin-default-settings updated to 1.3.14
3. ubuntu-kylin-software-center, updated to 1.3.10
4. youker-assistant, updated to 2.0.7
5. indicator-china-weather, updated to 2.1.4
6. Chinese-calendar, updated to 1.0.3

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