DeepinOS v.20. beta

The V20 version of the Linux-based Deepin OS, which is expected to be released in January, was postponed because  of the covid-19 epidemic that affected the development progress. Bad luck would have that Deepin OS which is developed by Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd is based in Wuhan,  the epicenter of covid 19.

Deepin provides users with a number of applications built via Deepin Tool Kit, which is based on C++ and Qt. It come pre-installed with many open-source and proprietary programs such as Google Chrome, and Steam. It also includes a software suite of applications developed by Deepin Technology like Deepin Music and Deepin Movie. Now if you don't want to use Steam, Google chrome or any proprietary program DeepinOS may have pre-installed, you can uninstall them without a problem.

From what I can tell Deepin 20 will have the Debian 10 Stable repository as a base. The built-in kernel is upgraded to 5.3 which might fix some of the issues I was having with my Walmart Motile M142.

I won't be installing the beta. I will just wait for the general release. I have the current version 15.11 on my Dell Optiplex 9020. Since Deepin is a rolling release I have been just upgrading my install since Deepin 15.4. back in 2017. Version 15.7 was a game changer with its optimizations in memory usage. In version 15.6 the boot memory was like 1.2 GB. When I upgraded to 15.7 it dropped to 800 MB. Maybe when the operating system goes to version v.20 I can see memory usage in the 400s.