Inspur K-UX
| Industry | Information technology |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | China |
| Products | Inspur K-UX Linux distribution |
Inspur K-UX represents a Linux distribution derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is developed by Inspur, a multinational IT corporation headquartered in China. The x86-64 editions, specifically versions 2.0 and 3.0, have achieved official UNIX certification from The Open Group.
Overview
The initial release, Inspur K-UX 1.0, targeted the IA-64 (Itanium) platform and secured certification for the Linux Standard Base (LSB 4.0) in 2012.
Version 2.0 of Inspur K-UX was one of six commercial OSes to receive certification under The Open Group’s UNIX 03 standard. It shared this distinction with systems such as macOS, Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and EulerOS. This version was designed to operate on the Inspur Tiansuo K1 server and was built for the x86-64 architecture. According to the UNIX 03 compliance documentation, the system employs the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) C compiler and is aligned with the Red Hat lineage.
The SPEC benchmark records include Inspur K-UX 2.2 running on the Intel Xeon-powered Inspur K1 800 server, which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for x86-64 processors.
Inspur K-UX 3.0 also held UNIX certification; nevertheless, this accreditation expired on February 3, 2019, and has not been updated since.