Huawei has transferred the development of the Linux distribution openEuler to the non-profit organization Open Atom Open Source Foundation, similar to the international organizations Linux Foundation and Apache Software Foundation, but taking into account the specifics of China and focused on organizing collaboration on Chinese open projects.
Open Atom will act as a neutral platform for the further development of openEuler, not tied to a specific commercial company, and will also manage the intellectual property associated with the project. China Telecom, one of the largest Chinese telecom operators, announced the use of OpenEuler in its infrastructure and presented its own edition of this distribution, released under the name CTyunOS.
The openEuler distribution is based on the developments of the commercial product EulerOS, created as a fork from the CentOS package base, optimized for use on servers with ARM64 processors and is the only Linux distribution certified by the Opengroup committee for compliance with the UNIX 03 standard (macOS, Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX). The differences between openEuler and CentOS are quite significant and are not limited to rebranding. For example, openEuler comes with a different Linux kernel, a more recent GNOME-based desktop, includes ARM64-specific and multi-core optimizations, uses the iSulad lightweight container system, the clibcni network configurator, and the A-Tune automatic settings optimization system.
Huawei also transferred the OpenHarmony project, which develops an operating system for IoT devices such as smartwatches, based on its own LiteOS microkernel, under the auspices of the Atom Open organization. Alibaba transferred the development of the AliOS Things operating system for IoT devices with a small amount of memory to the Open Atom organization, and Tencent transferred the TencentOS Tiny real-time operating system (RTOS). The projects developed by the Open Atom organization also include the distributed DBMS ZNBase (supports the PostgreSQL protocol), the Pika large data storage system (compatible at the interface level with Redis) and the XuperCore blockchain platform.
Source: opennet.ru