From their website (translated): Blue River Operating System 2 is the industry's first operating system written in the Rust language from the kernel to the system framework. A series of security features of the Rust language can detect security vulnerabilities caused by improper memory use during the compilation stage, making it inherently more secure from the source.
BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
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#12I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
> development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. For years I've had this issue with pretty much everything happening in China, from business to politics to culture. For me personally, getting a window into China has been the number one game changer with LLMs. It's easier than ever to find and digest Chinese sources.
I feel that it is quite obvious the next century will have China leading the pack, and I'd really like to be able to prepare for that.
Re: BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
#13I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
It's time to learn Chinese. Especially with advances in RISC-V
Re: BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
#14I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi24/presentation/chen-h...
Re: BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
#15It appears there's a book? How can I see it without compiling it?
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#17I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
They created a brand new microkernel with Linux ABI and driver support in containers? Or... did they just slightly fork Linux and pretend they invented it?
Re: BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
#18I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
> development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. For years I've had this issue with pretty much everything happening in China, from business to politics to culture. For me personally, getting a window into China has been the number one game changer with LLMs. It's easier than ever to find and digest Chinese sources.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
> development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. For years I've had this issue with pretty much everything happening in China, from business to politics to culture. For me personally, getting a window into China has been the number one game changer with LLMs. It's easier than ever to find and digest Chinese sources.
Do you have any resources (search engines, prompts, MCP, other tools) to help with this? I feel that it is quite obvious the next century will have China leading the pack, and I'd really like to be able to prepare for that.
China Media Project (media analysis) - https://chinamediaproject.org/
China Leadership Monitor (political analysis) - https://www.prcleader.org/
Made in China Journal (social analysis) - https://madeinchinajournal.com/
What's on Weibo (pop culture reporting) - https://www.whatsonweibo.com/
The China Project (formerly SupChina, general reporting) - https://thechinaproject.com/
* edit to add: seems like The China Project shut down end of 2023, but leaving the link for context
Sixth Tone (state-owned media specializing in human interest stories) - https://www.sixthtone.com/
On the state-owned media tip there are also more blatant propaganda outlets like Global Times, People's Daily etc, plus private-owned media that largely toe the party line like South China Morning Post.
There are also a set of mostly US-based thinktanks that do solid macro-level reporting on geopolitical and economic issues, guys like Jamestown, CSIS, German Marshall Fund etc.
Then there are countless blogs and newsletters and influencers who report on specific niches, everything from economic analysis to boyslove fandom... You can jump on Bilibili to watch shows and see all the "bullet chat" jargon and memes, you can rub shoulders with the upper middle class on Xiaohongshu, read millions of Steam reviews or check out the forums of games popular in China, follow ABC or expat channels on YouTube etc. I find it very hard to believe that people in 2025 can't find any information about what's going on in China.
All that said, I do share the sense that there is a bit a trough between Chinese tech workers and foreign tech workers, and it's because most Chinese tech workers don't tend to prioritize learning English to the same degree that tech workers around the rest of the world do. There are lots of publications that report on the Chinese tech industry from an investor or economic perspective, probably written by all those MBAs who went to study overseas, but nerd-to-nerd level exchange is lacking imo. I suppose you could ask an LLM to summarize content from v2ex.com (HN-ish Reddit), tieba.baidu.com (Reddit-ish Reddit), segmentfault.com (StackOverflow) etc, but that doesn't really do much to engage in a social way so I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for. Chinese-language Github projects are one place you could explore, if you specifically want to interact with developers over there.
Re: BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX
#20I regularly see articles pop in here about OS development happening in China but I find it very hard to find resource in English about what’s actually happening. Could anyone give an overview of what Huawei and Vivo are doing? I understand it’s mostly RTOS to use on phone. How does it compare to QNX and Linux? Is it as ambitious as Fuchsia? Apparently they are shipping. It’s weird that we have reached a point where t…
It's even harder to get an accurate picture of what Chinese companies are actually doing. Like the wiki page for Huawei's OS Next is pretty incredible. By which I mean, rather actually unbelievable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS_NEXT They created a brand new microkernel with Linux ABI and driver support in containers? Or... did they just slightly fork Linux and pretend they invented it?