Reborn 2005: The Internet Myth

On his first night in his new home, Wang Zheng slept peacefully and comfortably.

Starting from September 11th, Wang Zheng's life trajectory changed completely.

It took three months to go from having only 20 yuan left in my pocket to living in a luxury villa worth 35 million yuan.

Drinking hot milk and eating toast, Wang Zheng sat at his desk with some disgust and turned on the computer.

I need to find a nanny as soon as possible.

Although I know how to do it, I am lazy. Moreover, this house is too big, and the whole day will be over after cleaning it once.

As we all know, laziness is the primary productive force.

Wang Zheng took off the USB flash drive from his neck. It was time to make a backup for the USB flash drive. But now the hard drive is not that big, so he purchased a batch of hard drives to save the data and then seal it in a safer place.

In fact, the best option is to save it on tape, as the data security will be higher.

However, reading and writing tapes requires a dedicated tape drive. There is no need to buy a separate tape drive for less than 2 terabytes of data. After the company's data center is launched, tapes will definitely be used to back up the database, and you can just back it up when the time comes.

In this way, even if the USB flash drive fails, the data will not be completely lost.

He now wants to install the Hongmeng system on one of the computers and start studying the structure of the system.

Use the U disk to boot the system, select the Hongmeng system installation package, and start importing the system to the hard disk.

Soon, the startup screen of Hongmeng system appeared on the screen, which was still very beautiful.

The startup screen flashed and a simple installation interface appeared. The first step is to select the device type - three options: server, personal computer, and mobile device.

Of course, he chooses a personal computer here. The server system contains more management components, which seriously affects his work plan.

After setting the language, time zone, local account/network account, and skipping the network connection, the installation progress bar appears.

Because the hard disk speed is limited, the installation progress is slow.

However, this is also convenient for Wang Zheng to write "installation information" with a pen and paper next to him, such as information such as the system basic framework is installed successfully, the file management module is installed successfully, etc.

After about 10 minutes, the system was finally installed. As Wang Zheng typed in the preset password, the lock screen disappeared and he officially entered the system.

It is designed for the P system of Hongmeng system, so the interface is very similar to the win system, and the operation method is almost exactly the same.

The newly installed system basically has no applications, so the desktop is very simple, with only three simple icons: "Computer", "Browser" and "App Store".

Of course, there is no need to think about the app store. At this time, there are not even servers yet, so of course there will be no apps available for download.

But there is no doubt that this app store is important.

Unless the Hongmeng system is in developer mode, it is prohibited to install programs from external sources.

In other words, for ordinary users, they must download the program from the app store.

This is why Wang Zheng likes it very much: extremely strict program management mechanism.

Not only does it protect users' computers and personal privacy, it also protects the interests of developers.

Hongmeng system’s app store software can have prices customized by developers.

Like Apple, some large software companies can make profits by relying on free software and charging for content, and Hongmeng does not need to pay a high "platform tax."

Independent developers or small companies can also use software fees to provide excellent services. The platform share is very low, which is enough to ensure the developer's income.

The App Store made by Apple is indeed a very excellent product. Its significance lies in standardizing the rules on its own platform and balancing the interests of developers, users and platforms.

Why can Apple achieve a market value close to one trillion in the future? Because they must maintain competitiveness to maintain this rule. When a company becomes competitive, it will be more sought after by investors.

This is impossible to achieve on the win system. It is completely impossible to change the software ecological environment, including the broken sandwich cookie of win11, so the win app store is a dead end.

Guge's anOS is an open source system, which is even more unrealistic.

Hongmeng OS can do this. The kernel security mechanism it adopts is very excellent, which fundamentally avoids the possibility of rooting or jailbreaking.

Of course, the developer version can install external programs, but developer certification is very strict and has an independent review mechanism. Applying as a developer in order to use paid software for free, regardless of the penalty mechanism, is also very costly.

Wang Zheng is definitely not a developer, but it does not prevent his future company from having developers, so he got this developer version.

And he also has a server version authorization.

At that time, the company bought it for testing and deployed it, so he stored the authorization file in the USB flash drive.

The server version does not have a developer mode, and you need to purchase a license separately, otherwise you will not be able to enter the system without the authorization file.

The price was not expensive either. It was sold for 1999 per set at that time, which was much more conscientious than Microsoft.

The standard version of Microsoft's 2022 version of the server system sells for $899, and the data center version is even more ridiculous, $6,999.

After successfully entering the system, the notification bar in the lower left corner indicates that you are now in developer mode.

Next, Wang Zheng began to study the structure of system files.

The super file system of Hongmeng System is very good, but in order to cater to the international market, English folders were finally used.

For example, system files have a dedicated system folder, and the permissions are very high and cannot be modified or deleted.

Then the driver folder will also put various hardware drivers into categories, and during installation, only the driver for the current device will be adapted, without redundancy.

The inconvenience is that if you update the hardware, the system must identify it and download the appropriate driver to replace it.

For a while, because some older devices did not have drivers, many netizens were angry and upset.

Juchang put in a lot of effort to announce the news: "Don't make trouble, we already support 99.9% of the hardware."

This is also an important reason why Wang Zheng can successfully run Hongmeng on his 2006 old computer.

By the time Wang Zheng understood the functions of each document, he had only completed the preliminary work.

Then he will delete everything that should not be in the system.

What Wang Zheng wants to do is to delete everything that can be deleted, including built-in gadgets such as calculators, various cloud service programs, and important tools such as browsers.

Even the GUI interface has been removed, leaving only a bare core.

The codes of these programs are written by different people. Who knows if there will be short compositions in the code comments?

As we all know, Linus, the inventor of Linux, is extremely good at writing articles on code comments.

Sometimes I will write in the code comments, "I don't know what these lines of code are for, anyway, I will write them first and talk about them later." This kind of thing...

That's outrageous.

After completing this, he could take the semi-finished system to the company and equip it with the Cangjie compiler and development kit, as well as the Cangjie language.

Then let the R&D personnel learn the Cangjie language, and then use the Cangjie compiler to restore what he deleted to form a new operating system.

Wang Zheng really worked hard for this unnecessary but legal big project.

So I worked hard until Thursday night, and the progress was 2/100.