Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

On 02/12/15 17:28, Bob Summerwill wrote: Yes. Some devices cannot have their OS changed. SailfishOS ports - https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris Ubuntu Phone ports - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices Thanks for that. I did take a long look at Sailfish a while back. It

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

Yes. Some devices cannot have their OS changed. SailfishOS ports - https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris Ubuntu Phone ports - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices Another good resource for this sort of stuff is: http://forum.xda-developers.com/ On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 9:02

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

Hey Barry, Tizen is not community-port friendly for mobile devices. If you want a Tizen phone then you will need to buy a Z1 or Z3. If you want to get a mobile Linux on an existing device you are better off looking at Ubuntu Phone or Sailfish OS, both of which have community ports to a range of

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

On 12/02/2015 09:40 AM, Bob Summerwill wrote: > Hey Barry, > > Tizen is not community-port friendly for mobile devices. > > If you want a Tizen phone then you will need to buy a Z1 or Z3. > > If you want to get a mobile Linux on an existing device you are better > off looking at Ubuntu Phone or

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

>> I did take a long look at Sailfish a while back. It gave me as big a 'locked in' feeling as Android. I'm afraid that your perception is utterly wrong if that is the case. Sailfish OS is *very much* a hackers OS, which you can run terminal on, etc. The UI layer *is* closed and there has

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

PS. You should also check out http://replicant.us. On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Bob Summerwill wrote: > Premature send ... > > Leon >> I totally understand you, a lot of other people are looking for > the same developer smartphone :) > >> Unfortunately, I haven't see

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

Premature send ... Leon >> I totally understand you, a lot of other people are looking for the same developer smartphone :) >> Unfortunately, I haven't see anything like that since Nokia N900, N950 and N9. >> Based on my experience, if you have these expectations you might get disappointed by the

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

Hi Carsten, On 3.12.2015 01:27, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 18:13:19 + Barry Virgin said: On 02/12/15 17:28, Bob Summerwill wrote: Yes. Some devices cannot have their OS changed. SailfishOS ports -

Re: [Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 18:13:19 + Barry Virgin said: > On 02/12/15 17:28, Bob Summerwill wrote: > > Yes. Some devices cannot have their OS changed. > > SailfishOS ports - https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Adaptations/libhybris > > Ubuntu Phone ports -

[Tizen General] Samsung phone ....

Hi everybody It's only yesterday that someone in the Ubuntu community told me about Tizen. I'm really wanting to have a Linux phone. I've got a Samsung Galaxy Young2 smartphone, that I'm about to list on ebay. I won't get a lot for it, so I'm quite willing to risk bricking it! Pleas