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Tizen 2.0 Magnolia SDK and Source Code Released
jrepin writes "The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK are now available. 'This release includes an enhanced Web framework that provides state-of-the-art HTML5/W3C API support, a Web UI framework (including full-screen and multi-window support), additional Tizen device APIs, such as Bluetooth and NFC support, and access to the device's calendar, call history, and messaging subsystems are now available. Other highlights: The Web Runtime framework supports new configuration elements for specifying the required features and privileges, and provides the basic runtime environment for NPRuntime plugins; the Native framework supports full-featured application development and provides a variety of features such as background applications, IP Push, and TTS (Text-To-Speech)."
instead of wasting so much effort on yet another specialized slow contrived software that will run on a couple devices
why don't they instead put effort on making a linux distro that can be compiled for many devices? it's a shame to have 1.5ghz dualcore arm powerhouses and be restrained to the vm ridiculousness that is the android idea.
And Wikipedia says:
My God, it's Full of Source!
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Okay. Is there an actual production device yet?
We need more alternatives for tablets and mobile phones, Google has way to much control since Android has a near-monopoly on mobile devices these days. It does not say if they also plan to keep the development truly open, I hope they do. Android pretends to be free software but it doesn't have much in common with actual free software projects.
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All those SDK/OS releases are cool. However for end consumers to use it, we do need devices that support it...
Funky license
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Funky license
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Tizen is also seriously targeting the automotive market. The old carputer concept has been reborn under the initialism "IVI", for "In Vehicle Infotainment", and lots of ODMs seem to be interested in getting a piece. IVI industry types are the major backers of big kernel changes like the controversial new AF_BUS.
Like Tizen, a successor to Maemo/MeeGo but with the community in mind:
...my hunch is that Bada will take center stage for Samsung, and only share code with or assimilate the Tizen components that have restrictive and/or non-copyleft licenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mer_(operating_system)
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Tizen came from meego came from moblin came from intel ripping everything non-intel-specific out of Linux and slapping a pretty interface on it (OpenGL ES, maybe?) Unfortunately they never took the time to make moblin stable and then they abandoned it and joined meego and took their toys over there, where presumably they threw away half of what intel did and then sat on it and did nothing (they had a GUI-less release once, whee!) and then they brought out Tizen for some new devices which were capable of running more powerful systems, but abandoned the original Atoms which are the platforms that actually need a lightweight Linux.
I'm having trouble telling if there are any images for anything people actually own, and it doesn't look like it...
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I read a little of the on-line doco, and noticed that the "native development" system supports C++ but not exceptions. So two-phase object initialisation is a requirement and try/except is out, and a bunch of standard APIs can't be used. There was also something about restrictions on C use, should you prefer that, but also missing some standard library functions. That's not too surprising, but I suspect that the C++ restriction is going to make porting code from existing sources painful. I dimly remember C++ under Symbian being odd, for similar reasons. Maybe for exactly the same reasons and with the same heritage?
-- Andrew
The Moblin alpha and beta releases booted in about 5 seconds, on a single-core Atom netbook, to a full linux desktop.
The alpha was mostly Fedora packages, the beta had a surprisingly sensible UI for the class of devices it was targeting, and would have done well for tablets, I think.
I wish that I knew how to make my computers do that again. You may talk about instant booting from ROM, but show me any combination of modern hardware and software that approaches the speeds of Moblin.
"It's not about booting faster, it's about booting in five seconds." Sigh...
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Tizen joins Blackberry 10, Firefox OS, webOS, and Windows 8 in saying "Write HTML5 apps for our platform". Unfortunately these are all also-ran platforms, but it does make it easier for PhoneGap to target them along with turning HTML5 into Android and iOS native apps.
So where are these HTML5 apps? I don't want to have to connect to a a web site and hand over my personal details to maintain a list or edit a photo in my browser. I should be able to try out any application in my browser, and if I like it "pin it" to run locally. I hoped FLOSS developers would step up and develop these, but they seem stuck in the 90s arguing irrelevancies like GTK vs. Qt and Python vs. C++.
Instead there are hundreds of thousands of "apps" that are nothing more than HTML5 packaged a certain way, all dumped into a few needlessly platform-specific App stores.. It's a travesty of the principles of the web, and for no good reason. At least Mozilla has the right vision:
=S
https://lists.tizen.org/pipermail/general/2012-October/001068.html
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?