In an interview with a French magazine, Huawei’s CEO and founder, Ren Zhengfei, has stated that the homegrown HongmengOS will be faster than Android and will have a broader application as well. It can be used not only on smartphones but on routers, network switches, tablets, computers and even data centers.
It will also be faster than macOS, he says.
Nobody cares. No applications, no platform. Sadly, it’s as simple as that.
> It can be used not only on smartphones but on routers, network switches, tablets, computers and even data centers. It will also be faster than MacOS.
So it’s Linux.
If rumours are right, its sailfish Os. Which has been renamed Aurora OS. And used to be Meego… moblin…. meamo… oh… it’s all linux!
It is also the mobile OS that has simple REFUSED to die
https://maemo-leste.github.io/ Maemo rides again!!!
Maemo remains my #1 favourite mobile OS. I still visit the Neo900 website with crossed-fings and high hopes!!
Sure; out of a few GiB of stuff it, several MiB probably was Linux (before it got customized).
A small correction: it’s GNU/Linux, plus a tons of added crapware.
It’s faster than android simply because it does not use Java and in actual stage of development
crap came only from the OEM not also from hundred of sources.
There’s no indication it uses the GNU stack, and considering the wide range of form factors it’s targeting, there’s good reason to expect that it doesn’t.
Probably BusyBox or ToyBox.
“Nobody cares. No applications, no platform. Sadly, it’s as simple as that.”
It’s likely Linux based so it will have everything that exists for linux available.
Being Linux based, it’s also likely to have the Android runtime so it should be able to run Android applications too.
On GNU/Linux we have a good selection of desktop software and a super-good selection of CLI/TUI software
but essentially nothing is meant do be used with limited touch input and micro-displays, so essentially there is
nothing really usable on limited and limiting platforms like craphones…
Also today mobile is more about services, like Google Maps, than about software (of course, to better lock-in
users) and in that field Google is really the best service provider, on mapping OSM, Yandex maps, Apple maps,
Bing maps, are behind GMaps, in terms of “office automation on the web/on the go” Drive is superior to any
other crappy suite. Of course it’s a mess being a webcrap, but mobile itself can’t afford much.
Yeah KDE had kde plasma active which was pretty cool, it took existing kde applications and they made sense for touch automatically. Well kinda. It was buggy. But agreed no one would really want to do that. But being a Chinese company, their are Chinese alternatives to all the googly things. Wouldn’t take much work to make that work for other audiences. How good/bad are they compared to google? No idea.
Faster these days only means you’ve cut compatibility or security.
This is the side effect of breaking supply. Remember when android was first released it was very second rate as well.
Yes if I was Huawei I would not be caring about Android as it currently does not support any processors that the USA cannot block supply of the tech. Remember Huawei has quite a large market share inside china to service.
This is like saying TempleOS is the fastest OS of all time. Of. All. Time.
Of course it will be faster than macOS.. That is like comparing a new car to the oldest slowest and least updated car still sold on the market.
And new stuff is always faster, until they implement all the heavy stuff that slows everybody else down.
My Windows 3.1 machine boots in a few seconds
My Windows 10 machine takes about 5 minutes.
Heck, my Commodore 64 gets to a BASIC prompt as soon as you flick the power.
My MacOS boots in 7 seconds.
Fix your computer. All mine have booted in a couple of seconds for years thanks to SSDs.
“Nobody cares. No applications, no platform. Sadly, it’s as simple as that.”
The vast majority of crucial applications can be run through browsers. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Spotify, Netflix, Youtube, Google Maps, Google Photos, Gmail, Outlook, Whatsapp…you name it.