What does Huawei’s formal donation of the Euler operating system mean?

What does Huawei’s formal donation of the Euler operating system mean? Huawei will continue to focus on technological innovation, ecological construction, business promotion, and open source construction. We will continue to invest in and promote the development of Euler in five aspects: talent development and talent development. What does Huawei’s official donation of Euler OS mean? What does Huawei’s official donation of the Euler operating system mean1

On November 9, the Operating System Industry Summit 2021 was held in Beijing. At this meeting, Huawei, together with all community partners ***, officially donated the Euler open source operating system (openEuler, referred to as "Euler") to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation. According to reports, Euler is an open source operating system for digital infrastructure. It can be widely deployed on various forms of equipment such as servers, cloud computing, edge computing, and embedded. The application scenarios cover IT (Information Technology), CT (Communication Technology) and OT. (Operational Technology), realizes a unified operating system to support multiple devices, and one-time application development covers all scenarios.

Wang Tao, Managing Director of Huawei and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee, said in his speech that leading the digital economy requires strong digital infrastructure, and basic software is the soul of digital infrastructure. A strong soul means a strong body. If it is healthy and solid, its branches will flourish. At the meeting, Wang Tao announced that Huawei would donate the full code, brand trademarks, community infrastructure and other related assets of the Euler open source operating system to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation to bring together more industrial forces and build a stronger digital economy at a faster speed. infrastructure.

Wang Zhijun, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, said in a video speech: "Eule, a heavyweight open source project in the field of operating systems, was donated to the foundation for incubation, which is an important step for my country to seize the development of the Internet of Everything era. It is a useful attempt to seize the opportunity and use open source as the starting point to build the next generation operating system and build a 'digital base' for economic and social development."

Huawei Vice President and President of Computing Product Line Deng Taihua promised in the keynote speech at the conference. After Euler's donation, Huawei will continue to invest in and promote the development of Euler from five aspects: technological innovation, ecological construction, business promotion, open source construction, and talent development.

According to reports, Euler’s donation includes millions of lines of Huawei’s self-developed code copyright and intellectual property licenses, and more than 8,000 software packages verified by Huawei and the community. ; Huawei's innovative iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects; openEuler and the iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects' 30 Chinese and English trademark brands; openeuler.org and its subdomains, and openeuler.io and its subdomain names, ***4; build community infrastructure such as service and testing systems, code hosting, and community operation platforms.

According to the official website of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation, the foundation is a non-profit independent legal entity registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs and dedicated to the public welfare of the open source industry. The Open Source Foundation's service scope includes open source software, open source hardware, open source chips and open source content, etc. It provides neutral intellectual property custody for various open source projects to ensure that the sustainable development of the project is not affected by third parties and seeks richer development through open governance. Support and help from community resources, including raising and managing funds, and providing legal, financial and other professional support.

The official website of the Open Atom Open Source Foundation shows that its incubation projects include: AliOS Things, TencentOS Tiny, OpenHarmony and openEuler, etc.

What does Huawei’s official donation of the Euler operating system mean? 2

Following the end of September this year, Huawei officially released openEuler, an open source operating system for digital infrastructure. On November 9, at the Beijing National At the Operating System Industry Summit 2021, which was held simultaneously online and offline at the conference center, Huawei joined hands with all community partners *** to officially donate the Euler open source operating system to the Open Atom Open Source Foundation.

According to reports, this donation includes full code and software packages, innovative projects, trademarks, domain names, community infrastructure, etc.

Code and software packages: Millions of lines of Huawei self-developed code copyright and intellectual property licenses, and more than 8,000 software packages verified by Huawei and the community.

Innovative projects: Huawei’s innovative iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects.

Trademarks: ***30 Chinese and English trademarks of openEuler and iSula, A-Tune, Stratovirt, and secGear projects.

Domain names: openeuler.org and its subdomain names, and openeuler.io and its subdomain names, ***4.

Community infrastructure: Build community infrastructure such as service and testing systems, code hosting, and community operation platforms.

At this summit, Huawei stated that Euler has been completely upgraded, from an OS focused on servers to expanded to cloud services, edge computing, and embedded systems such as CT/OT. The scenario revolves around building a unified open source operating system for digital infrastructure. A unified operating system supports multiple devices, and one-time application development covers all scenarios.

Wang Tao, Huawei’s Managing Director and Director of the ICT Infrastructure Business Management Committee, also pointed out at this summit that the operating system is the core component of basic software and the most important basic software. Since Euler operating system was open sourced, it has received positive response from the industry.

It is understood that the open Euler open source community is currently the most active open source Linux community in China. More than 300 companies have participated, its developers have grown to more than 7,000, and the number of SIG groups has reached 93. , after one year of development, the number of software warehouses has exceeded 8,500, and the number of community users has approached 250,000. It has become one of the open source projects that developers around the world pay most attention to.

Currently, 10 operating system manufacturers have released commercial releases based on open Euler, including Kirin Software’s Kirin V10, Unified Technology UOS V20, etc., and have entered the government, operators, finance, electric power, etc. In multiple industries, more than 600,000 units have been commercialized on a large scale.

Regarding the relationship between Euler and Hongmeng, Deng Taihua, president of Huawei’s computing product line, pointed out that Hongmeng is mainly oriented to smart terminals, while Euler is oriented to ICT, industrial scenarios, etc. Currently, Euler and Hongmeng have implemented core technology* **Sharing will be further achieved in distributed soft buses, secure OS, device driver frameworks, and new programming languages ??in the future. Through capability sharing, ecological interoperability and cloud-edge-device collaboration are achieved to better serve all digital scenarios.

Deng Taihua revealed that the New Euler Community Edition, which integrates distributed soft bus and other technologies, is expected to be released to the outside world in March next year. For example, he said that in applications, Euler devices are expected to automatically recognize Hongmeng devices. What does Huawei’s official donation of the Euler operating system mean3

This morning, Huawei not only demonstrated the latest openEuler Euler operating system at the Operating System Industry Summit 2021 meeting, but also signed a contract with the Open Atomic Open Source Foundation Donation agreement, officially donating the openEuler operating system.

Euler operating system is an operating system released by Huawei. It can be widely deployed on various forms of equipment such as servers, cloud computing, edge computing, and embedded. It supports applications in the OT field and the integration of OT and ICT. It can Covering all scenarios from IT, CT to OT digital infrastructure.

It is understood that the open Euler open source community is currently the most active open source Linux community in China. Its developers have grown to more than 7,000 people, the number of SIG groups has reached 93, and the number of software warehouses has increased after a year. Development has exceeded 8500.

At the same time, 10 operating system manufacturers have already released commercial releases based on open Euler, including Kirin Software’s Kirin V10, Tongxin Software UOS V20, etc. Community users The number is close to 250,000, and it has become one of the open source projects that developers around the world pay most attention to.

Xu Zhijun, Huawei’s rotating chairman, once said that China’s ICT (Information and Communications Technology) industry has always been short of cores and souls. Huawei uses Euler and Hongmeng to create operating systems that cover all scenarios, and they are all open source. Let the industry participate and jointly remove the "less soul".

It is understood that Euler operating system can also complement HarmonyOS. Currently, kernel technology sharing has been achieved. The former will serve HarmonyOS from the underlying architecture, and devices equipped with Euler operating system can automatically Identify and connect Hongmeng terminal devices.

Huawei Vice President and President of Computing Product Line Deng Taihua promised in the keynote speech at the conference that after Euler’s donation, Huawei will continue to work in five aspects: technological innovation, ecological construction, business promotion, open source construction, and talent development. Invest in and promote the development of Euler.