Huawei To Pivot To Linux, HarmonyOS as Microsoft Windows License Expires
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/17/183209/huawei-to-pivot-to-linux-harmonyos-as-microsoft-windows-license-expires
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Richard Yu, executive director of Huawei's consumer business unit, said the company is preparing to pivot to alternative operating systems. Huawei had previously announced plans to abandon Windows for future PC generations. The Chinese tech giant will introduce a new "AI PC" laptop in April running its own Kunpeng CPU and HarmonyOS, alongside a MateBook D16 Linux Edition, its first Linux-based laptop.
[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/huaweis-microsoft-windows-license-for-pcs-expires-this-month-company-launching-pcs-with-harmony-os-report
They'll learn eventually (Score:2)
There would have most certainly been no DeepSeek without export controls.
Nvidia lost $600 billion, with a B, in market cap, in one day.
Now we have what will very likely be, by a huge margin, the biggest Linux laptop ever made.
It won't be a single day, but there's no way Microsoft is happy to see it.
The chip export controls just motivated the development of models that work with less chips, they only made sense to policy makers who were oblivious to how doable that really was. Now this only makes sense, if i
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> Now we have what will very likely be, by a huge margin, the biggest Linux laptop ever made.
Not really, there are plenty of actors selling Linux laptops in china, either with NeoKylin or Ubuntu Kylin. Lenovo and HP in particular, make a killing in china selling LAptops with Linux. You see, china's govt has a mandate for govt agencies to use as much "indigenous tech" as possible, and Kylin is a big part of that push. And the private sector is "strongly encouraged" to do so. Doubly so if you deal a lot witgh the govt (say, the govt is your client, provider, or you develop apps for them).
So no, Those
Re: They'll learn eventually (Score:2)
Nvidia is down 15% in the last year. But still up 1800% over the last 5 years. Seems like more of a blip in the bubble, not a pop just yet
Very Nice (Score:2)
I may know where my next laptop comes from. Hopefully others follow.
Plus with this maybe China will fully dump Microsoft, making Linux the largest Desktop System due to China's population.
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This always seemed like an inevitability to me.
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Yeah, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened 20 years ago. I mean Linux has been completely usable for everything for the past 25 years, and now most schools and devs use it exclusively, so why hasn't the global transition happened yet ?
Crack down on Linux (Score:2)
Linux is used by our enemies (China and Canada), and they aren't even paying us for it. They owe us a lot of money. Linux is clearly unamerican and should be fully banned, and anyone caught working on it in the US should be in prison.
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I thought that Linux was Finnish? Crazy European socialists are trying to corrupt our youth. Someone should pass a resolution forcing us to go back to a REAL Capitalist UNIX distribution, like SCO!
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> I may know where my next laptop comes from. Hopefully others follow.
> Plus with this maybe China will fully dump Microsoft, making Linux the largest Desktop System due to China's population.
As long as I can DualBoot Windows and Linux on these Huawei Laptops, I may give them a go. No one is preventing Huawei from developing suitable drivers (making microsoft sign the drivers is another thing entierly).
I currently use MacOS as Main, dual booting to Windows. I may as well use Linux as main, dualBooting to windows for my next upgrade cycle in 2 years.
PS: Windows in '91, BSD in '95, Linux in '96, Windows in '98, MacOS x in '09... OS agnostic, use the best tool for the task at hand is my motto.
Year of the Linux Desktop jokes aside: (Score:2)
The Chinese Govt. has had a Linux desktop version for year now. They are called Neo Kylin and Ubuntu Kylin (this one comes from an agreement between Canonical and the Chinese govt).
Just by selling Neo (as I doubt uncle sam will allow cannonical to sell to Huawei) to a fraction of Govt agencies will be enough for Huawei to get a decent volume, on top of whatever they can get from consumers. Doubly so because the chinese govt has a mandate for govt agencies to buy as much "chinese stuff" as possible.
Probably
Finally ... (Score:4, Funny)
The year of linux on the desktop ?
Re:Finally ... The year of linux on the desktop ? (Score:3)
Which Window manager will they choose...
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And will they choose vi or emacs.
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> And will they choose vi or emacs.
It depends on if they are evil or not...
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Real Unix gurus use sed to edit files, even when they're starting from scratch:
> sed 's/.*/hello, world!/' < /dev/null
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I actually did that once, admittedly for a very short script. (I forget WHY I did it that way, but there were then some conditions where that was the best approach.)
OTOH, I edited those scripts ONCE, and saved them. I didn't do it repeatedly. (But I was never a Unix guru, I was just the only one in the office that was willing to deal with it. Everybody else used either mainframes or CP/M...except graphics which used Apples.)
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> You can't spell "vile" without "vi". -- Someone on Usenet long ago
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KDE.
Why, is there any other ?
*ducks*
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Well, it's the (obviously) required joke, but this is likely the way it'll happen. Not necessarily this as in this actual event, but something like this. Sanctions, or some other Western chest-thumping. It's an open secret that it wasn't the presence of backdoors that Huawei was blacklisted for, but for refusing to add back doors in their equipment (same reason that TikTok is black listed for refusing to allow western intel into the accounts). At some point the rest of the world is going to wonder why t
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yeah, that was just shooting fish in a barrel, I admit.
but... as much as you make a good logical argument for dumping MS and Risc-V... soooo... the year 2099 with be the year of linux on the desktop?
People, businesses, seem paralyzed in the Microsoft headlights.
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I expect the same. At some point the offering by Microsoft will get too bad, too expensive or too unvavailable and then people will find out that you do not need it after all. Some critical mass is required. This event here may supply that or not. But at some time it will happen.
Also remember that Huawei is in the $100 Billion revenue class and has about 200k employees. That is not a small enterprise.
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Sounds like it might be in China, anyway. Maybe Huawei can do something that Slashdot fans have failed to do for the past 25 years, and pick a standardized GUI and text editor for us?
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Bad idea. Different workflows are better handled with different editors. (OTOH, I'd almost always pick geany and mate.)