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Tizen Source Code Released
sfcrazy writes with news that developers for the Tizen project, an open source mobile OS based on MeeGo (itself a child of Moblin and Maemo), have posted a preview of their source code and SDK. They warn, "Please keep in mind that this is a very early preview and is not yet designed for use to create production applications. Further enhancements and improvements to Tizen and its development environment will continue as we work towards a formal release over the coming months." The source code is available here.
and is not yet designed for use to create production applications.
Too late, it's already been added to the next Ubuntu release :P
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ever seem finished, do they?
The current Tizen is not based on MeeGo in any way at all. It was written entirely inside Samsung, Intel only joined the project at a very late stage when all the code was written.
Samsung isn't just backing Tizen.. Samsung WROTE Tizen in it's entirety (well except the Open Source bit). They've had Rasterman (the author of the EFL library they're using) on their payroll for quite a few years now.
That said, don't see a great strategy here from Samsung, they're the no1 maker of Android and WP7 phones too. Their strategy seems to do all platforms.
I thought it was Motorola that specialized in locking smartphone bootloaders and refused to provide a means to unlock.
No. It is an open source, Linux based OS that leverages existing technologies found in the Linux world, such as glibc, Xorg, Enlightenment, Webkit, etc. with a focus on being a vendor-independent mobile OS platform. It is, in many ways, a push back against Google, whose platform is almost entirely insular from the rest of the open source world.
The best thing about Moblin/Meego was that it booted in five seconds. The technology was originally demo'd in 2007 by an Intel engineer, and has been part of the project since then. Other distros have picked up on some of the technology (sreadahead, parallel boot) but no one else has come close to the actual boot times. The EeePC's bios also had a 'readahead' feature that basically saved the bios state to disk (SSD) and read that into memory the next boot, practically eliminating the BIOS segment of the boot time. Other mobos presumably have similar features, but seven seconds from power button to desktop on a netbook was mind-blowing at the time, and is still impressive.
IMO they should have kept the focus on it as a netbook platform, and not gotten bogged down trying to package it for car stereos and cell phones and netbooks all at once. It would have made the transition to tablets with little UI modification.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
I did say "almost." Virtually the rest of the entire platform (Dalvik, Bionic, etc.) are all Google-only and see no use anywhere else. The one area where their system isn't insular, has spent years as a complete fork. Only recently have some changes been pushed upstream, and there are still notable parts not pushed up and meeting well deserved resistance.
Still an OS from Samsung? Seems everybody wants an OS nowadays ;)
http://www.bada.com/
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
http://source.tizen.org/git/
Nobody seems to have a problem with the N9, apart from the lack of apps.
Oh wait, that's another fork - Harmattan.
Time to abandon it for another new platform!
So it's based on Meego the same way that Wings were based on Beatles.
That's what Git repos are for, last I checked. And if it's anything like MeeGo, patches don't get accepted into the core platform until they've been accepted upstream.
Apparently by staying quiet and holding on to it even longer until you're ready to ensure that knee-jerk comments are put down as quickly as possible.
'Tim Bird, a Sony engineering veteran and the chair of the Architecture Group of the Linux Foundation's CE Workgroup, has announced a new concerted effort to get Android's changes to the Linux kernel back into the mainline Linux kernel tree.' Android has been using Linux 2.6.x for its devices since its release, with patches from Google. To date they haven't been merged back into the kernel mainline but existed on kernel.org. Some of the features such as wakelocks would help with Linux tablet projects, but other features aren't fully realized and support remains spotty.
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/1633235/project-to-mainline-android-kernel-changes-formed
Toward the end of November, the core Android code was returned to the staging tree, from which it had been removed at the end of 2009. Since the code's return to staging, changes have been going in and the code has caught up to its state in the Android tree. The code has now reached a point where, as summarized by Greg Kroah-Hartman on December 16:
http://lwn.net/Articles/472984/
Now almost two years later, a new effort that seems to have the backing of the Linux Foundation is aiming to bring Android back to the mainline. The project is officially titled the 'Android Mainlining Project' and was announced at the end of 2011 by Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation and Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment.
http://www.internetnews.com/blog/skerner/android-set-to-return-to-the-linux-mainline.-will-it-succeed.html
Not a fork but a "mother of MeeGo".
Harmattan is Maemo 6.0 + Qt
MeeGo is Maemo 5.0 + Moblin 1.0/1.1 + Qt
Tizen is MeeGo + LiMo
Maemo 5.0 -> Maemo 6.0 Harmattan aka MeeGo/Harmattan
Maemo 5.0 + Qt + Moblin -> MeeGo -> MeeGo + LiMo -> Tizen