Chinese OS and software ecosystem

well, there is the NearLink wireless communication, which seems to be dramatically better than bluetooth

UOS got selected for China's oil/gas pipeline network computers

China Postal group picked Kylin os for its computers

These 2 continue to split the market

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UOS got selected for China's oil/gas pipeline network computers

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China Postal group picked Kylin os for its computers

These 2 continue to split the market

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So Deepin is not gaining traction? Also, what do you see as the pros/cons of UOS vs. Kylin right now?

360 group & Huawei signed a deal in DongGuan for usage of Harmony on 360 group's browser & weather applications. i assume 360 group already has harmony apps for their programs so this is more for using HarmonyOS on various machines powering certain part of their system

HW signed another deal to provide HarmonyOS for HanWang's OCR machines. HarmonyOS has been signed on with several companies for their industrial product already

Harmony OS Next is expected to have Android Open Source Platform removed. There are rumors online that it also does not use the linux kernal and going to the micro kernel they mention 3 years ago. Considering it is difficult to get software ported to a even linux, i wonder how they will get apps on this platform or maybe the "marketing" doesn't match the engineering.

I believe Samsung briefly attempted push their own OS but China does have 1.4 billion consumers vs 50 million.

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Harmony OS Next is expected to have Android Open Source Platform removed. There are rumors online that it also does not use the linux kernal and going to the micro kernel they mention 3 years ago. Considering it is difficult to get software ported to a even linux, i wonder how they will get apps on this platform or maybe the "marketing" doesn't match the engineering.

I believe Samsung briefly attempted push their own OS but China does have 1.4 billion consumers vs 50 million.

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It's not that it's difficult to port consumer software to linux, it's just that it's not financially viable to port and support linux software.
Are you really going to spend valuable developer time to support 2~3% of your customer base while at the same time you could support 90+ of your customer base by patching and improving the windows version.

I think if Huawei can get a big enough mass in China, Russia and Iran to gather a lot of software developers to write for Open Harmony it should be fine. If Huawei can offer an Unix(like) api i think you could port a lot of things in like 2~3 days. Thats why linux and macos are such beloved developer platforms its easy to share developer terminal tools between those platform because they both use unix api to program against.

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I would have been more impressed with OpenKylin OS if they had actually removed all the Ubuntu logo‘s from the UI. There is nothing wrong with building a new OS based on top of a existing open source OS. But presentation is also very important.

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I would have been more impressed with OpenKylin OS if they had actually removed all the Ubuntu logo‘s from the UI. There is nothing wrong with building a new OS based on top of a existing open source OS. But presentation is also very important.

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The main problem is the "marketing" is sounds sorta false or there is something lost in translation to english. It should be market as OpenKyln Linux as a Chinese Linux distribution.

If they wanted to be "original" they could built it up from the linux kernal layer or a foundational distro like debian.