Say hello to the Russia-China operating system

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Huawei's stand at the 2019 Mobile World Congress. Photo: dpa / Andrej Sokolow

Say hello to the Russia-China operating system
The US ban on Huawei is pushing it to develop alternative systems that may rival Google and Android

Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system – and that is not a metaphor.

Aurora is a mobile operating system currently developed by Russian Open Mobile Platform, based in Moscow. It is based on the Sailfish operating system, designed by Finnish technology company Jolla, which featured a batch of Russians in the development team. Quite a few top coders at Google and Apple also come from the former USSR – exponents of a brilliant scientific academy tradition.

In 2014, Russian entrepreneur Grigory Berezkin started co-owning Jolla, and from 2016 his Mobile Platform company started developing a Russian version of the operating system. In 2018, Rostelecom, a state company, bought a 75% share in Open Mobile Platform.

Ahead of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, Huawei chairman Guo Ping discussed the possibility of adopting Aurora with Russian minister of digital development and communications, Konstantin Noskov. According to Guo, “China is already testing devices with the Aurora pre-installed.”

In Moscow, before moving to St Petersburg, Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping discussed multiple possible deals; and these include Huawei-Aurora, as well as where to locate some of Huawei’s production lines in Russia.

Google, here we come
Aurora could be regarded as part of Huawei’s fast-evolving Plan B. Huawei is now turbo-charging the development and implementation of its own operating system, HongMeng, a process that started no less than seven years ago. Most of the work on an operating system is writing drivers and APIs (application programming interfaces). Huawei would be able to integrate their code to the Russian system in no time.

HongMeng, for its part, is a key project of Huawei 2012 Laboratories, the innovation, research and technological development arm of the Shenzhen colossus.

No Google? Who cares? Tencent, Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo are already testing the HongMeng operating system, as part of a batch of one million devices already distributed.

HongMeng’s launch is still a closely guarded secret by Huawei, but according to CEO Richard Yu, it could happen even before the end of 2019 for the Chinese market, running on smartphones, computers, TVs and cars. HongMeng is rumored to be 60% faster than Android.


The HongMeng system may also harbor functions dedicated to security and protection of users’ data. That’s what’s scaring Google the most; Huawei developing a software impenetrable to hacking attempts. Google is actively lobbying the Trump administration to add another reprieve – or even abandon the Huawei ban altogether.

By now it’s clear Team Trump has decided to wield a trade war as a geopolitical and geoeconomic weapon. They may have not calculated that other Chinese producers have the power to swing markets. Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, for instance, are not (yet) banned in the US market, and combined they sell more than Samsung. They could decide to move to Huawei’s operating system in no time.

By the end of August, probably at an industry fair in Berlin, Huawei should be announcing its new chip Kirin 985. And by September the first Huawei smartphone equipped with HongMeng could be hitting the market.

Watch that Lineage
Google bought Android in 2005. Android is based on Linux, a free software operating system. There are already similar and better free software systems on the market, such as Lineage, which has a version adapted to at least two Huawei models, the P20 Pro and the Honor View 10.

The existence of Lineage operating system is proof that Huawei is not facing a lot of hurdles developing HongMeng – which will be compatible with all Android apps. There would be no problem to adopt Aurora as well. Huawei will certainly open is own app store to compete with Google Play.

The next step for Huawei and other producers is to go for Made in China processing and memory chips, breaking the stranglehold by Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Micron Technology, Western Digital and the British ARM.

And then there’s the Holy Grail: 5G. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly stressed that what really matters is how advanced Huawei is compared to the competition.

Total tech war is in full effect. Huawei may face a very hard spell ahead. But at the end of a long and winding road there may be a sweet, unbeatable prize; prevailing over Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and all that with invaluable help from the Trump administration.


https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/say-hello-to-the-russia-china-operating-system/

 

[war&peace]

The success of the OS will depend on the following factors

1. It should use known languages and the base should in English with utf-8 encoding using ascii...not Chinese or Russian
2. Open source
3. Diverse community of developers that develop apps
4. It should also be available for desktop PC.

 

[fitpOsitive]

Huawei's stand at the 2019 Mobile World Congress. Photo: dpa / Andrej Sokolow

Say hello to the Russia-China operating system
The US ban on Huawei is pushing it to develop alternative systems that may rival Google and Android

Google cuts Huawei off Android; so Huawei may migrate to Aurora. Call it mobile Eurasia integration; the evolving Russia-China strategic partnership may be on the verge of spawning its own operating system – and that is not a metaphor.

Aurora is a mobile operating system currently developed by Russian Open Mobile Platform, based in Moscow. It is based on the Sailfish operating system, designed by Finnish technology company Jolla, which featured a batch of Russians in the development team. Quite a few top coders at Google and Apple also come from the former USSR – exponents of a brilliant scientific academy tradition.

In 2014, Russian entrepreneur Grigory Berezkin started co-owning Jolla, and from 2016 his Mobile Platform company started developing a Russian version of the operating system. In 2018, Rostelecom, a state company, bought a 75% share in Open Mobile Platform.

Ahead of the St Petersburg International Economic Forum last week, Huawei chairman Guo Ping discussed the possibility of adopting Aurora with Russian minister of digital development and communications, Konstantin Noskov. According to Guo, “China is already testing devices with the Aurora pre-installed.”

In Moscow, before moving to St Petersburg, Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping discussed multiple possible deals; and these include Huawei-Aurora, as well as where to locate some of Huawei’s production lines in Russia.

Google, here we come
Aurora could be regarded as part of Huawei’s fast-evolving Plan B. Huawei is now turbo-charging the development and implementation of its own operating system, HongMeng, a process that started no less than seven years ago. Most of the work on an operating system is writing drivers and APIs (application programming interfaces). Huawei would be able to integrate their code to the Russian system in no time.

HongMeng, for its part, is a key project of Huawei 2012 Laboratories, the innovation, research and technological development arm of the Shenzhen colossus.

No Google? Who cares? Tencent, Xiaomi, Vivo and Oppo are already testing the HongMeng operating system, as part of a batch of one million devices already distributed.

HongMeng’s launch is still a closely guarded secret by Huawei, but according to CEO Richard Yu, it could happen even before the end of 2019 for the Chinese market, running on smartphones, computers, TVs and cars. HongMeng is rumored to be 60% faster than Android.


The HongMeng system may also harbor functions dedicated to security and protection of users’ data. That’s what’s scaring Google the most; Huawei developing a software impenetrable to hacking attempts. Google is actively lobbying the Trump administration to add another reprieve – or even abandon the Huawei ban altogether.

By now it’s clear Team Trump has decided to wield a trade war as a geopolitical and geoeconomic weapon. They may have not calculated that other Chinese producers have the power to swing markets. Xiaomi, Oppo and Vivo, for instance, are not (yet) banned in the US market, and combined they sell more than Samsung. They could decide to move to Huawei’s operating system in no time.

By the end of August, probably at an industry fair in Berlin, Huawei should be announcing its new chip Kirin 985. And by September the first Huawei smartphone equipped with HongMeng could be hitting the market.

Watch that Lineage
Google bought Android in 2005. Android is based on Linux, a free software operating system. There are already similar and better free software systems on the market, such as Lineage, which has a version adapted to at least two Huawei models, the P20 Pro and the Honor View 10.

The existence of Lineage operating system is proof that Huawei is not facing a lot of hurdles developing HongMeng – which will be compatible with all Android apps. There would be no problem to adopt Aurora as well. Huawei will certainly open is own app store to compete with Google Play.

The next step for Huawei and other producers is to go for Made in China processing and memory chips, breaking the stranglehold by Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Micron Technology, Western Digital and the British ARM.

And then there’s the Holy Grail: 5G. Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei has repeatedly stressed that what really matters is how advanced Huawei is compared to the competition.

Total tech war is in full effect. Huawei may face a very hard spell ahead. But at the end of a long and winding road there may be a sweet, unbeatable prize; prevailing over Google, Cisco, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and all that with invaluable help from the Trump administration.


https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/06/article/say-hello-to-the-russia-china-operating-system/

Rather than calling it aurora, call it Dong Feng or any other Chinese name. West may keep her names too.

 

[war&peace]

Rather than calling it aurora, call it Dong Feng or any other Chinese name. West may keep her names too.

Are you trying to sabotage it even before it launches?

 

[fitpOsitive]

Are you trying to sabotage it even before it launches?

Yes. I am a one man army.

 

[war&peace]

Yes. I am a one man army.

But I'm sure that the developers of the OS are multiple times smarter than any random "one man army" and they have already named it Aurora... btw Aurora is not an original English word.

 

[fitpOsitive]

But I'm sure that the developers of the OS are multiple times smarter than any random "one man army" and they have already named it Aurora... btw Aurora is not an original English word.

I may not be as smart as you are or those developers are, but see, the platforms on which this development will take place, are also USA owned. So, while knowing the background, I was thinking, what is the point of this thread?

 

[masterchief_mirza]

I will buy a phone with this Aurora OS gladly.

 

[Imran Khan]

it was needed since long time MICRSOFT GOOGLE yahoo etc world need many US companies need a strong alternative

 

[war&peace]

I may not be as smart as you are or those developers are, but see, the platforms on which this development will take place, are also USA owned. So, while knowing the background, I was thinking, what is the point of this thread?

No bro, I have no claims about being smart...especially in a comparative way.. I'm just grateful to my Creator for whatever blessings He has bestowed upon me and one of the ways to being grateful to Him is use the brain and faculties He has given to me.

 

[Yaseen1]

I think it will be easy for chinese developers to develop alternative to android apps as they have idea of types of apps currently running in android having high demand and they simply require to develop copy of such apps with certain improvements and are not required to start from same position from which android started as at that time there was no data available about users preferences which is widely available now

 

[fitpOsitive]

I think it will be easy for chinese developers to develop alternative to android apps as they have idea of types of apps currently running in android having high demand and they simply require to develop copy of such apps with certain improvements and are not required to start from same position from which android started as at that time there was no data available about users preferences which is widely available now

From java to nodejs, everything is USA owned. How they gonna do that, I wonder?

 

[sohail.ishaque]

I think it may not be that good but it'll improve with the passage of time. I mean this could be a good starting point but it won't be a challenge to any established OS at this point of time.

 

[jamahir]

Aurora is a mobile operating system currently developed by Russian Open Mobile Platform, based in Moscow. It is based on the Sailfish operating system, designed by Finnish technology company Jolla

People should stop calling yet another Linux distro as a separate operating system.

Something like QNX or MS Windows is a separate OS. This Aurora is simply another Linux distro.

Huawei is now turbo-charging the development and implementation of its own operating system, HongMeng, a process that started no less than seven years ago.

What a waste of time !! They took seven months and didn't create a new OS.

I wrote a simple five-command OS in five or six months, including learning Assembly language from scratch.

 

[war&peace]

From java to nodejs, everything is USA owned. How they gonna do that, I wonder?

Those are in public domain...open source and btw, they can also develop new languages. As part of MS in CS, we also developed languages and wrote compilers... A lot of Russians are behind the development of most of the languages and OS