Huawei Translated Development Linux-distribution OpenEuler in the non-profit organization Open Atom Open Source Foundation , similar to Linux Foundation international organizations and Apache Software Foundation, but taking into account the specifics of China and focused on organizing collaboration on Chinese open projects.
Open Atom will perform a neutral platform for further development of Openeuler, not affected by a certain commercial kopania, and will also manage the intellectual property related project. China Telecom, which is among the largest Chinese telecom operators, announced the use of Openeuler in its infrastructure and submitted its own edition of this distribution, released under the name Ctyunos.
OpenEuler distribution is based on the Euleros commercial product operations, created as a branch from the CENTOS batch base, is optimized for use on Servers with ARM64 processors and is the only Linux distribution, Certified Committee OpenGroup for compliance with UNIX 03 (MacOS, Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX are also certified). The differences of the Openeuler from Centos are quite significant and are not limited to rebranding. For example, OpenEuler comes other Linux kernel, a more recent GNOME-based desktop, are included for ARM64 and multi-core optimization systems, the ISULAD lightweight system, the network configurator Clibcni and the automatic optimization system A-TUNE .
Previously, Huawei has already transferred under the patronage of the organization Atom Open project Openharmony , developing an operating system for IoT devices, such as smart watches, based on Liteos’s own microkernel. Alibaba transferred to the organization Open Atom, the development of the operating system Alios Things for IoT devices with a small amount of memory, and the company TENCENT – operating Tencentos Tiny , operating in real time (RTOS). The projects developed by the Open Atom projects also include distributed DBMS znbase (supports PostgreSQL protocol), the storage system of large data volumes pika (compatible at the level of interfaces with redis) and a block platform xupercore .