Inspur K-UX is a

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based on

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produced by Inspur, a Chinese multinational company specializing in

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. Inspur K-UX 2.0 and 3.0 for

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were officially certified as

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systems by

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Overview

Inspur K-UX 1.0 was certified for the

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(LSB 4.0) in 2012. K-UX 1.0 was compiled for the

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architecture (

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). Inspur K-UX 2.0 was one of six commercial

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s that have versions certified to The Open Group UNIX 03 standard (the others being

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, and

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). The operating system was certified running on the Inspur Tiansuo K1. The operating system was compiled for the

architecture. The UNIX 03 conformance statement for Inspur K-UX 2.0 shows that the standard C

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is from the

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(), and the system is a

in the

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family tree. Inspur K-UX 2.2 is featured in SPEC benchmark results, running on the Inspur K1 800 server. The benchmark results describe an

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-based server running Inspur K-UX Server 2.2. The operating system appears to be based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for the x86-64 architecture. Inspur K-UX 3.0 was also certified as a UNIX OS, although, according to the same website, its certification expired on 3 February 2019 and has not yet been renewed.Inspur K-UX 3.0 is UNIX 03 certified
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