Talk:OpenHarmony

Is OpenHarmony based on HarmonyOS or is HarmonyOS based on OpenHarmony?

This article says

OpenHarmony (OHOS), also known as OH by shorter acronym, is a family of open-source distributed operating systems based on HarmonyOS

and also says

Huawei announced the launch of commercial proprietary MineHarmony OS, a customized operating system by Huawei based on its in-house HarmonyOS distro based on OpenHarmony

This is what is known as a "(directed) cycle". Is there some way to break the cycle, e.g. "Huawei open-sourced much of HarmonyOS as OpenHarmony, and changes to OpenHarmony, including third-party changes, are now propagated to HarmonyOS", in which case it's not a simple "based on" relationship, and shouldn't be described as such. Guy Harris (talk) 06:23, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

The rest of that sentence is even more confusing: "... based on HarmonyOS derived from LiteOS, donated the L0-L2 branch source code by Huawei to the OpenAtom Foundation". I'm guessing this was written/translated by a non-native English speaker, but I can't actually figure out what it means to fix it. Is it saying the lineage is LiteOS -> HarmonyOS -> OpenHarmony? Which of those did Huawei donate to an open source foundation?

And what is "the L0-L2 branch", which is mentioned four times in the article, but never defined? The only other branch named is "the L3-L5 branch", which is mentioned once in a 106-word-long run-on sentence about "HarmonyOS NEXT".

I think this article might need to be brutally cut down, if someone can figure out some basics, because large parts of it are just incomprehensible right now. - IMSoP (talk) 18:31, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

To some degree it reads as if it were written by Huawei's marketing department rather than by Huawei's engineering department. It Would Be Nice if they'd just turn the engineers loose to describe it. Guy Harris (talk) 20:17, 1 April 2025 (UTC)

OH has 3 kernels: Lite-A, Lite-M & Linux. Lite-* seem to be derived from LiteOS. HarmonyOS is a branding hoax, mixture of everything -- it can even be AOSP. 内存溢出的猫 (talk) 08:52, 18 May 2025 (UTC)

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I have some major concerns

Somebody has removed the warning box for "this article is clearly being astroturfed"/"there are clear conflicts of interest".

There are anonymous accounts with edits exclusive to harmony/huawei adjacent articles. One of their main objectives seems to be include as many buzzwords as possible, such as the refactoring from "free and open source" to "FOSS" and the inclusion of hip programming languages that arent even used. Additionally, there are users spamming every single god damn industry underneath the "marketing target" instead of simply leaving it as "embedded." Why does an operating system need to state "cars", "industries", "satellites", "robots," and other such keyword spam after "Embedded systems" was clearly stated first. Worse still, they're passed off as minor edits without further comment or citations.

Ohnoitsjamie probably has some additional comments to add regarding this.

(I'm ~2026-79630-9, i tried to add some actually useful info regarding the kernel type before & investigated what they actually use vs what their marketing material states)

xref/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/BenHDev/Archive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-18484-75 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/~2026-14628-39 ~2026-33409-30 (talk) 06:43, 6 June 2026 (UTC) (and a few others)

Also worthy of note, they seem to be hellbent on spamming harmony related products underneath development tooling/devices.

the tag for "this is marketing spam" and "theres clear first party astroturfing involved" shouldn't have been removed.

PS PS PS: Regarding the rust spam and javascript annotation.

Can we not say "JS (lite)"? There is no such thing as "JavaScript Lite". ECMAScript is the standard, and in that context, there's no such thing. Stating "JS (lite)" in the overview infobox isn't intelligible. No amount of subtexts and citations will ever make that make sense. We're not the customs and tax officials of Europe trying to determine whether or not a piece of software meets ECMA standards; if there's some kind of technical limitation in its' implementation, we shouldn't have to care/clarify in an overview simply describing what language it's written in.

Likewise, I cannot find a single system component or application written in Rust. Why does this keep getting added back? I'll give the benefit of the doubt to harmony based distros, but there's no a single primary system component written in rust as far as I can tell. See previous explanation the edit history. tl;dr, activists edited a first party jpeg as proof, even though said jpeg isn't used on any harmony website nor can be found in any git repo (origin/master state). Rust activists are known to shoehorn their preferred language into places it doesnt belong, including the editing of historic product comparison cheatsheets and support matrices to feel included. ~2026-33409-30 (talk) 07:23, 6 June 2026 (UTC)

I've blocked quite a few BehHDev socks, but I usually like to add them to the SPI case to be sure. Do you see any WP:DUCK behavioral connections regarding the contributions above? OhNoitsJamie ^talk 15:16, 6 June 2026 (UTC)