Today both the Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation Announced a new Operating System – “Tizen”. This Operating System is a combination of Limo and MeeGo that will eventually replace MeeGo. The project will be hosted by the Linux Foundation and led by a technical steering team composed of Intel and Samsung.
As I have mentioned previously news was on the horizon and this is it. Intel see that the Industry is increasingly becoming Web centric and web technologies such as HTML 5 are critical in moving forward and as such Tizen will be based on HTML5 and WAC web development environments.
Tizen will have the same dreams that MeeGo had of running on multiple devices ie Tablets, Netbooks, Handsets, Smart TV, and In-Vehicle Infotainment systems and it will be interesting to see if it can realise those dreams.
So More information to come soon.
Here is the Press release for the Linux Foundation:
By now, you may have read that The Linux Foundation, with the support of several other companies, announced a new project, Tizen, to build a new operating system for devices. This new project is first and foremost open source, and based on Linux. So it begs the question: why not just evolve MeeGo? We believe the future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our investment needs to shift toward HTML5. Shifting to HTML5 doesn’t just mean slapping a web runtime on an existing Linux, even one aimed at mobile, as MeeGo has been. Emphasizing HTML5 means that APIs not visible to HTML5 programmers need not be as rigid, and can evolve with platform technology and can vary by market segment.
Granted, this is a judgment on our part on which reasonable people could disagree, but that’s the conclusion I came to.
But in the new project, a lot of things will be the same as they were in the MeeGo project. The Tizen project will reside within the Linux Foundation, will be governed by a Technical Steering Group, and will be developed openly with familiar and improved infrastructure. Much like MeeGo, the Tizen project will support multiple device categories, including Tablets, Netbooks, Handsets, Smart TV, and In-Vehicle Infotainment systems.
Here is the Press Release by the Limo Foundation:
New cross-device and cross-architecture platform will drive standards-based web applications
September 27, 2011 – LONDON, ENGLAND and SAN FRANCISCO, USA – LiMo Foundation™ and the Linux Foundation today announced a new open source project, Tizen™, to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted at the Linux Foundation, Tizen is a standards-based, cross-architecture software platform which supports multiple device categories including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment systems. The initial release of Tizen is targeted for Q1 2012, enabling first devices to come to market in mid-2012.
Tizen combines the best open source technologies from LiMo and the Linux Foundation and adds a robust and flexible standards-based HTML5 and WAC web development environment within which device-independent applications can be produced efficiently for unconstrained cross-platform deployment. This approach leverages the robustness and flexibility of HTML5 which is rapidly emerging as a preferred application environment for mobile applications and the broad carrier support of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). Tizen additionally carries a state-of-the-art reference user interface enabling the creation of highly attractive and innovative user experience that can be further customized by operators and manufacturers.
“LiMo Foundation views Tizen as a well-timed step change which unites major mobile Linux proponents within a renewed ecosystem with an open web vision of application development which will help device vendors to innovate through software and liberalize access to consumers for developers and service providers,” said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. “LiMo will maintain its focus on providing the industry with a broadly backed vendor- and service-neutral ecosystem grounded in the spirit of open and unconstrained opportunity that is embodied by Linux.”
The mobile industry continues to embrace Linux and open source technologies as key factors in lowering device realization cost, increasing flexibility and improving time to market and it is expected that Tizen will further enhance these effects due to its cross-category reach and strong focus on open standards.
“The Linux Foundation is pleased to host the Tizen platform,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation. “Open source platforms such as Tizen are good for Linux as they further its adoption across device categories. We look forward to collaborating with the LiMo Foundation and its members on this project.”
To participate in the project, please go to www.tizen.org
Over the next couple of months, we will be working very hard to make sure that users of MeeGo can easily transition to Tizen, and I will be working even harder to make sure that developers of MeeGo can also transition to Tizen.
I want to personally thank everyone who has participated in MeeGo over the past year and a half, and I encourage you to join us at Tizen.org. We hope to use what we learned from the MeeGo project to make Tizen successful, and I hope to see you participating in Tizen!
Imad
20 Response Comments
all i want to kno is what does this mean for the n9 and will nokia contine to develop meego alone
N9 is not MeeGo based, it’s Harmattan. And they practically stopped it too…
MeeGo/Harmattan is still under development inside Nokia.
Another name change?! This is simply stupid.
Hey, Intel, we want to develop apps, not hack web pages! Never trust big companies with unlimited resources…
you can develop apps … and deliver them via the web and html5. apps are so 2010.. this is a huge threat to crapple and the app store/ecosystem model. there just needs to be a way to monetize it.
The problem with all web apps is no integration at all. You can see it on desktop, you can see it with mobile web apps.
PS: actually I believe it should be possible in the good way with real integration through platforms but I just don’t believe Intel is able to do it (after seeing Intel peopel at Intel AppUp event
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Will it still use QT?
I bet they will keep backwards compatibility – keep GTK, Qt, add more stuff. I do think it’s quite stupid to go back from a powerful toolkit to something like HTML5 but let’s see. I think MeeGo will probably now loose the few ppl still caring.
Hi Jos,
Agreed.
As a day to day user of the KDE desktop one of the key things that made nokia/meego interesting was its use and promotion of QT, if Tizen doesn’t use that then it lessens my interest in exactly the same way as Nokia downplaying “linux” in its QT marketed handsets.
I also doubt the capability of Tizen to be anything more than still-born if it doesn’t use a decent mobile focussed UI toolkit like Qt.
I have seen too many of these mobile linux partnerships come and go to no real effect, at the end of the day nokia is on its fifth generation of mobile linux products, that is at least a real track record to place some trust in.
I’m all for meego being folded into Tizen, and wishing it every success, but without nokia and Qt i remain sceptical, and quite happy to continue with an N9 for the next couple of years.
HTML5 seems to me “fucked-by-design”. Mixing all this crappy standard with Javascript and CSS … wow.. dark future.
http://nomovok.com/news/56/73/Nomovok-provides-Tizen-with-integrated-Qt
Meego seems in general washing down to doomed-ware.
All we are left with is the oxymoronic “Android” “Open Source” platform. Damn..
With kernel.org too going down, Linux is in doldrums.
Stupid, treasoning nokia..
TizenExperts would sound like an xxx-site lol
This is simply stupid!
Why didn’t they just made a MeeGo 2.0-version without QT and LiMO as a new partner?
I would be really surprised if there would ever be released smartphone Tizen and if I don’t think that I would have any success at all.
I like my Nokia N900. A Debian GNU/Linux-powered mobile computer with a good terminal, X, multitasking, qwerty keyboard and more, but I sadly think that this we be my last real Lunux-powered smartphone.
I am deeply with you Louis Tim Larsen!!
I want GNU/Linux powered mobiles and tablets. Hard times indeed !
Limo is created for years, but no product comes out, so it’s simply a rubbish project. And it is too late to change the road, market will not stop and wait for one more year. HTML5 is an open standard, but the backend API is not cross-platform, so it can not be better than QML. So many people worked so hard for so long time for meego, you have no right to kill it yourself. What we need is exciting devices, not strange names of creatures.
The news is good – the marketing is horrid.
Scraping the MeeGo name in exchange for this new name and a bad logo is a huge mistake.
They should cal this project MeeGo5
1. It indicates prgress on an existing project where Tizen suggests another cold start.
2. It implies the inclusion of the HTML5 component which is a big deal.
Way bad marketing…
More on MHO here: http://www.somagames.com/somaniloquy/2011/09/30/meego5-is-what-you-meant-to-say-intel/
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