At Open Source Summit Europe, openEuler was one of only two dedicated Linux distribution booths, both from Chinese projects. The project is the community successor to Huawei's EulerOS and is now governed by the OpenAtom Foundation, whose co-founders include Alibaba, Baidu, Tencent, and Inspur. EulerOS, openEuler's predecessor, was originally based on CentOS Linux; after CentOS shifted to Stream, openEuler developed its own stack.
The desktop edition, DevStation, is a notable step beyond typical enterprise Linux. It boots into a custom installer and offers GNOME 49, Deepin, UKUI, MATE, Xfce, and Kiran desktop environments. The latest release supports x86-64 and 64-bit Arm, while LTS builds add RISC-V and LoongArch, and older versions are available for SW-64 and 32-bit Arm.
The project also bundles its own infrastructure: an LLM toolchain called Intelligence BooM, a migration utility named x2openEuler, and the iSula container engine alongside Kubernetes, Docker, and Podman. Its dual-strand release cycle resembles Ubuntu, with LTS releases and faster innovation releases. That contrasts with Western CentOS successors like Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux, which have stayed closer to RHEL compatibility rather than building a separate ecosystem.