Yes, it is finally happening. Huawei's HarmonyOS NEXT is shedding its janky Android roots. As promised at the Huawei Developer Conference (HDC) 2023, the OS's new version is a new and fresh software effort. Huawei officially launched the HarmonyOS NEXT Beta at this year's HDC 2024 conference. Let's go through some of the basics first. HarmonyOS NEXT is not based on Android, nor is it strictly speaking a Linux system. It is based on OpenHarmony and is a microkernel-based core distributed operating system for HarmonyOS. That is to say that HarmonyOS NEXT has the HarmonyOS microkernel. It...

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