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Am I the only one excited for HarmonyOS Next? (lemy.lol)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/22/huawei_harmony_os_next/

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[–] computergeek125 95 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No I can't say I'm excited for an OS that will undoubtedly contain first-party spyware

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

This, exactly this

I want a third option but this ain't it

[–] Fake4000 40 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't never touch a Huawei phone.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So... you would always touch it?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't never not touch it

[–] b000urns 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't disagree

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't not disagree with your not disagreement.

[–] johsny 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I agree.

[–] rob_t_firefly 2 points 9 months ago

I'll take Whoopi Goldberg to block.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Why...? It's obviously a tool to spy on their citizens even more effectively and very possibly to spy on western citizens as well.

I'm all for alternatives to Android and iOS, but I'd rather be spied on by private companies than a country that pretty much plans to take over Asia and then the rest of the world in the coming decades (well, in my wet dreams SailfishOS matures as a real alternative and I don't have to choose Android at all).

[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

No thanks. I prefer my government mass surveillance and backdoors in the binary blob firmware layer. Separation of concerns and all that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Super fast Chinese spyware

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

Yes, yes you are.

[–] silencioso 13 points 9 months ago

At least now you can choose if you prefer to be spied by the US government or the Chinese government :D

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

[+] [email protected] -6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

They release their code the same way that android do.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There is some open core, but system you recieve in the end device is going to be totally locked and without source code to see. The only component with available source will be Linux kernel, because of it's user-friendly copyleft licence, but it is so much modified even on Android it's basically useless.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

The os is not based on linux.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So they release the bare minimum and shove every feature in proprietary Play Service blobs?

[–] TheGrandNagus 3 points 9 months ago

They don't even do that.

Android is fundamentally FOSS, but in reality Google has an additional proprietary layer over the top (that unfortunately is growing)

HarmonyOS is fundamentally proprietary, but a few components are GPL licence so they've done the bare minimum in making that open to satisfy the law. And even those parts are being stripped out over time.

[–] TheGrandNagus 1 points 9 months ago

No. HarmonyOS is closed source.

[–] AlmightySnoo 11 points 9 months ago (2 children)

There's also Red ~~Fash~~ Star OS if that's your thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Star_OS

[–] wikibot 7 points 9 months ago

Here's the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:

Red Star OS (Korean: 붉은별; MR: Pulgŭnbyŏl) is a North Korean Linux distribution, with development first starting in 1998 at the Korea Computer Center (KCC). Prior to its release, computers in North Korea typically used Red Hat Linux, and later switched to modified versions of Microsoft Windows with North Korean language packs installed. Version 3. 0 was released in the summer of 2013, but as of 2014, version 1. 0 continues to be more widely used.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

that's linux

[–] plague_sapiens 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Not it's Red Star OS!!!!! Looks like you don't like communist leadership! To the gulag with him!

[–] NotMelon 2 points 9 months ago

No, take him to naked island

[–] Asudox 2 points 9 months ago

blasphemy!

[–] desmosthenes 9 points 9 months ago

..why..?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Oh man. By that headline I got my hopes up that Logitech came to their senses and renewed the Harmony Hub or even the glorious Harmony One.

[–] ichbinjasokreativ 5 points 9 months ago

Yes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

yes on lemmy.

[–] TheGrandNagus 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Break with the Linux ecosystem? No it doesn't lol

HarmonyOS is a multi-kernel system. It uses the Linux kernel and a modified LiteOS kernel. Unless they mean to eventually move past that, but idk, this article is trash and doesn't say much, it just sucks Huawei's dick.

Nobody should care about some dodgy proprietary OS with CCP backing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Well, if it creams Linux... And I'd really like to see a Chinese giant break.