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Huawei's LiteOS Internet of Things Operating System Is a Minuscule 10KB

Posted by samzenpus on from the in-the-future dept.

Mark Wilson writes: Chinese firm Huawei today announces its IoT OS at an event in Beijing. The company predicts that within a decade there will be 100 billion connected devices and it is keen for its ultra-lightweight operating system to be at the heart of the infrastructure. Based on Linux, LiteOS weighs in at a mere 10KB — smaller than a Word document — but manages to pack in support for zero configuration, auto-discovery, and auto-networking. The operating system will be open for developers to tinker with, and is destined for use in smart homes, wearables, and connected vehicles. LiteOS will run on Huawei's newly announced Agile Network 3.0 Architecture and the company hopes that by promoting a standard infrastructure, it will be able to push the development of internet and IoT applications

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  1. Re:but does it run linux? by thegarbz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    security is easier with a small footprint than a large one.

  2. open? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No mention of the license. "Tinker" isn't sufficient.

    This is Huawei; the electronics arm of the PLA.

    Not touching any of their work without a full open source BSD style license.

    Neither will anyone else.

    1. Re:open? by AmiMoJo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It's China. What makes you think that a BSD style licence, or any other licence based on western copyright law, would make any difference?

      --
      const int one = 65536; (Silvermoon, Texture.cs)
      SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
  3. Old fart's claims finally justified. by JustNiz · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This story seems to confirm my ongoing claim that a minimal Windows install taking 15Gb+ of disk space and using over 1GB of ram just to run is BEYOND crazy. ...but then I'm also old enough to remember when a bootable MsDOS environment used up about 1/3 of a 1.2mb floppy.
    Now get off my lawn.

  4. The art of doing more with less by MpVpRb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ..seems to be forgotten

    Old time programmers remember squeezing every bit of performance out of a system

    I remember doing image processing on a 4MHz 8088, in 1986, in assembly

    Modern processors are INSANELY powerful..yet, most of the power is wasted on layers and layers of crap that incompetent programmers don't even realize is there

    We need to re-discover efficiency in programming