Huawei has unveiled a self-developed operating system called the HarmonyOS NEXT. At the development event, the CEO described the OS as fully independent with a full-stack AI framework. The CEO has also claimed that the Harmony kernel is three times more efficient than Linux.
The Linux kernel is being developed by a bunch of enthusiasts literally on their own, it is not a commercial product.
Huawei developers are well paid. They are professionals.
Linux, even with all its poor architecture, suffers not from the quality of the kernel, but from the UI in general, because... Not a single shell comes close to the usability of Windows and the convenience/ease of installing software and configuring it. That is why, despite the status of a “free” product, Linux is still in oblivion on the market, for more than 25 years, with its pitiful 2-3% of the market.
There are no miracles - professionals obviously do everything better, because... they have a vested interest in this.
@pernia@sjw@mischievoustomato I'm trolling but vxworks is in fact really good, it uses way less resources than linux and is more reliable but it doesn't work on every board known to man like linux
@Moon@sjw@mischievoustomato u know, parent company came to my campus to give talks to future graduates. Also donated some lisences and equipments. What are u uaing it for though?
@Moon@sjw@pernia@mischievoustomato Yeah these special purpose RTOSes are actually really solid. In any case, reading OP, I guess Huawei buying out all of Dresden finally paid off for them.
@sj_zero@sjw@pernia@FourOh-LLC@mischievoustomato imagine if there were two metals that were both similar in use except one of the metals was more durable and lighter. i realize this isn't a perfect analogy but you can see my point.
That's a pretty useful statement if the difference is meaningful to you.
I'll tell you, if I'm building something with unistrut that needs to be somewhat corrosion resistant, I'd choose aluminium because it's lighter than stainless steel.
If there was another "operating system" with the number and types of deployment targets built around the GNU ecosystem -- but there is not three, two or even one.
Quite frankly, the GNU/Linux system is second to none in the "general use" category.
@FourOh-LLC@sjw@pernia@mischievoustomato@sj_zero my original post I just copied a troll from their comments section but I'm being earnest about vxworks. I am old enough that I still don't consider Linux an "embedded OS."