The way forward for Meego has become a little bit clearer this morning, now that the Linux Foundation has announced that it’s going to get replaced with Tizen — a brand new Linux -based, open-source OS. Samsung and Intel were tapped to steer the event of the platform, in collaboration with the LiMo Foundation — a consortium of businesses including Panasonic Mobile Communications, NTT DoCoMo and SK Telecom, among others. In line with its stewards, Tizen will support HTML5- and WAC-based apps and may be designed to run across a large spectrum of devices, including smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, netbooks and in-car infotainment systems. The MeeGo project, for its part, already appears to be on board with the initiative, promising to “be certain that users of MeeGo can easily transition to Tizen,” while assisting MeeGo developers, to boot. The recent OS is slated for release through the first quarter of 2012, with the primary Tizen-laced devices scheduled to hit the market across the middle of next year. For more details, hit up the source link below, or trek past the break for the total PR.
New Cross-Device and Cross-Architecture Platform Will Drive Standards-Based Web Applications
LONDON and SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sep 28, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — LiMo Foundation(TM) and The Linux Foundation today announced a brand new open source project, Tizen(TM), to develop a Linux-based device software platform. Hosted on 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 concentrated for Q1 2012, enabling first devices to return to market in mid-2012.
Tizen combines the very best open source technologies from LiMo and The Linux Foundation and adds a strong and versatile standards-based HTML5 and WAC web development environment in which device-independent applications is also produced efficiently for unconstrained cross-platform deployment. This approach leverages the robustness and adaptableness of HTML5 that’s rapidly emerging as a popular 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 may 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 with the intention to help device vendors to innovate through software and liberalize access to consumers for developers and repair providers,” said Morgan Gillis, Executive Director of LiMo Foundation. “LiMo will maintain its talk about providing the industry with a broadly backed vendor- and repair-neutral ecosystem grounded within the spirit of open and unconstrained opportunity which 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’s expected that Tizen will further enhance these effects as a result of its cross-category reach and powerful give attention to open standards.
“The Linux Foundation is pleased to host the Tizen platform,” said Jim Zemlin, Executive Director of The Linux Foundation. “Open source platforms consisting of Tizen are good for Linux as they further its adoption across device categories. We glance forward to collaborating with the LiMo Foundation and its members in this project.”
To take part within the project, please visit http://www.tizen.org.
About LiMo Foundation LiMo Foundation(TM) is a dedicated consortium of mobile industry leaders working together within an open and transparent governance model — with shared leadership and shared decision making — to deliver an open and globally consistent handset software platform based upon mobile Linux to be used by the entire mobile industry. The Board of LiMo Foundation comprises ACCESS, Panasonic Mobile Communications, NEC CASIO Mobile Communications, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, SK Telecom, Telefonica and Vodafone. an entire description of LiMo Foundation are located at www.limofoundation.org.
Concerning the Linux Foundation The Linux Foundation is a nonprofit consortium devoted to fostering the expansion of Linux. Founded in 2000, the organization sponsors the work of Linux creator Linus Torvalds and promotes, protects and advances the Linux operating system by marshaling the resources of its members and the open source development community. The Linux Foundation provides a neutral forum for collaboration and education by hosting Linux conferences, including LinuxCon, and generating original Linux research and content that advances the knowledge of the Linux platform. Its web properties, including Linux.com, reach approximately two million people per 30 days. The organization also provides extensive Linux training opportunities that feature the Linux kernel community’s leading experts as instructors. Follow The Linux Foundation on Twitter.
The Linux Foundation and Tizen are trademarks of The Linux Foundation. Linux is a hallmark of Linus Torvalds. LiMo is a hallmark of the LiMo Foundation.
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