The Register stopped by the openEuler booth at Open Source Summit Europe 2026 and took its new workstation edition for a spin.
The quick version
- openEuler is the community version of Huawei’s EulerOS, a version of which got official UNIX certification.
- It’s now run by the OpenAtom Foundation, co-founded in 2020 by Huawei with Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent and Inspur.
- Its CentOS roots are giving way to homegrown containers, AI tools and now a desktop edition.
My take
You don’t hear much about openEuler over here, but it’s a serious distro with a lot of muscle behind it. Interesting to see it chase the desktop. I’ll stick with Arch and Omarchy, but more Linux on more desktops is a good thing.
Have a blessed day! And Happy Hacking!
