On April 17, the openEuler community held the first openEuler Virtual Summit 2020 online. This meeting aims to share the latest industry developments of openEuler with the computing industry and discuss the new version of the technical plan.

The openEuler project comes from Huawei's server operating system EulerOS. On September 18, 2019, Huawei announced that it would open-source it, and also launched its open-source community. On December 31, Huawei announced the opening of the openEuler source code, which is hosted on the Gitee platform.

In March of this year, at the Huawei Developer Conference 2020 (Cloud), Huawei released the openEuler 20.03 LTS version, and together with Kirin Software, iSoft Infrastructure Software Co., Ltd, Union Tech, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences Software Institute announced that the openEuler-based commercial version operating system was officially released.

Keynote guest Jiang Dayong introduced the basic situation of openEuler. As of April, openEuler's ISO image has been downloaded 9000 times; the number of contributing code is 220; the total number of contributing codes is 5324; the contributors applied to establish a 30+ sub-project team.

The preparatory group promoted the start of key community organizations, including the community secretariat, technical committee and safety committee.

The openEuler 20.03 LTS kernel is based on Linux Kernel 4.19, aligned with the Linux kernel LTS version. With Glibc 2.28, GCC 7.3, systemd 243, KVM virtualization support, supports iSula 2.0.0, Docker 18.09 and Kata 1.7.0.

In addition, openEuler has optimized the software full-stack, including applications, runtime/acceleration libraries, virtualization/containers, and operating system bottom layer.

It is worth mentioning that the experts at the meeting introduced that openEuler is not directly related to CentOS. Both are derived from the most upstream Linux Kernel.

Jiang Dayong said: "openEuler is not only a Linux distribution but also an open-source community. OpenEuler is an innovative platform. All developers, partners, and open source enthusiasts participate together to innovate around customer scenarios. , More new ideas are generated, making the application experience better and making the computing industry more prosperous. "

Multiple operating system vendors

At present, many operating system manufacturers have participated in the construction of the openEuler community. At the meeting, experts such as iSoft, Kirin Software, Software Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tuo Linsi and others shared the status of commercial releases based on openEuler.

Among them, PwC Basic Software contributed its Mate-Desktop desktop project to the openEuler community, and was responsible for the community infrastructure construction, GTK4 Porting, Wayland Porting and code review of the project.

Kirin Software introduced the enterprise-level virtualization solution oVirt and the lightweight desktop project UKUI into the openEuler community; the Chinese Academy of Sciences Software Institute will encourage more developers to participate in the openEuler community through the "Open Source Software Supply Chain Lighting Project" and promote open-source software in China development of.

On the other hand, the prosperity and development of the diversity computing industry cannot do without the joint participation of the upstream and downstream of the industry chain.

Tsinghua Tongfang said that it has invested more than 200 senior experts to participate in the research and development of multi-core heterogeneous computing, 9 national production bases to provide capacity support for the diversity computing ecology, and has two research centers in Beijing and Shenzhen to support ecological adaptation Related work has now achieved support for openEuler 20.03 LTS and commercial distributions.

Diverse computing scenarios

The host introduced that the openEuler community will adhere to the concept of "co-building, sharing and co-governance" to create the best operating system for diverse computing scenarios.

Dozens of special interest group (SIG) technical seminars were set up at this summit. The participating technical experts and community participants will focus on infrastructure (Kernel, package management, security, etc.), applications (desktop, compiled language, compiler Etc.), virtualization and container (iSula, oVirt, etc.) and other technical direction feature planning, development and maintenance of detailed discussions, laid the foundation for the smooth launch of openEuler 20.09 LTS version.

The summit is still in progress. For details, please visit: https://openeuler.org/zh/summit/2020-virtual-summit.html