Huawei provides an enterprise Linux distribution version EulerOS based on CentOS. Huawei recently released a community edition of EulerOS called openEuler.

The source code for openEuler is also available. You won’t find it on Microsoft-owned GitHub — the source code is available at Gitee, a Chinese alternative to GitHub.

It has two separate repositories, one for storing source code; The other, as the source code for the software package, stores the software package that helps build the operating system.

The openEuler infrastructure team shares their experience with making source code available:

We’re very excited right now. It’s hard to imagine us managing thousands of warehouses. To ensure that they compile successfully, we would like to thank everyone who contributed.

OpenEuler is a Linux distribution based on CentOS

Like EulerOS, openEuler OS is based on CentOS, but Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. further developed the operating system for enterprise applications.

It is tailor-made for arm64-based servers, and Huawei claims to have made some changes to improve its performance. You can learn more at huawei Development blog.

Currently, more than 50 contributors have contributed nearly 600 submissions to openEuler, according to openEuler’s official statement.

Contributors make it possible for source code to be available to the community.

It is worth noting that the repository also includes two new projects (or subprojects) related to it, iSulad and A-Tune.

A-tune is an AI-based operating system tuning software, and iSulad is A lightweight container runtime daemon designed for the Internet of Things and cloud infrastructure, as mentioned in Gitee.

In addition, the official announcement mentioned that these systems are automatically built using scripts on Huawei cloud. It’s really interesting.

Download openEuler

So far, you can’t find its documentation in English, so you have to wait or choose to help them by (contributing) documentation.

You can test it by downloading the ISO directly from its official website:

  • Download openEuler

What do you think of Huawei openEuler?

Huawei had announced that EulerOS would become open source software under a new name, openEuler, cnTechPost reported.

It is unclear whether openEuler will replace EulerOS, or whether the two will coexist like CentOS (community edition) and Red Hat (commercial edition).

I haven’t tested it yet, so I can’t say if openEuler is suitable for English users.

Would you like to have a try? If you’ve tried it, let me know about your experience in the comments below.

via: itsfoss.com/openeuler/

Ankush Das is the author of the study

This article is originally compiled by LCTT and released in Linux China