From the release announcement: "deepin is a Linux distribution committed to providing an elegant, user-friendly, safe and stable operating system for users all over the world. deepin 15 pays more attention to internationalization, and is enhanced with brand new mirror image acceleration (CDN acceleration). Languages supported are up to 30, thus the infinite charm of deepin can be experienced globally. Newly added languages are Malay, Bulgarian, Swedish, Croatian, Japanese, Korean, Finnish, Spanish (Latin America), Hindi (India), Ukrainian. Besides, we have reached an important cooperative relationship with Intel. We will collaboratively utilize Crosswalk Project to migrate existing web applications to deepin (Linux platform), thus enriching the diversity of applications for deepin and to improve the deepin experience." Download: Deepin 15 Download: Deepin Boot Maker 1.1 (for Windows) Deepin Boot Maker is a tool that helps user to create a bootable usb stick quick and easy, View: Deepin Website source&more_screenshots@Neowin http://i.imgur.com/7Ybf2mE.png http://i.imgur.com/HqiP3zt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/4MpTTJy.jpg
Chinese distro based on unstable Debian. Previous releases were based on Ubuntu. More info here: http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09242
I testdrove the prior version a few months ago. Yes, it was admirable ~~ very polished (and English support). deepin developers have been engaged in turning out plenty of "good stuff". You can check out their apps (and deepin desktop) at github. One of their interesting (to me) developments: they forked libvte and patched it to restore transparency support (which the gnome libvte devs had nixed earlier this year).
It looks really nice, though I think using these "docks" types of things make it seem like we're copying the style from Apple Really liked the black colors.
I'm trying this out. The bottom panel can be flattened out and it hides. There are a few right click options missing such as "open as root". I have to see about that.
Its a shell running on top of GNOME 3. The Budgie Desktop is quite similar. People who don't want to put too much work in setting up GNOME, Deepin is a user-friendly alternative.