On 3 December 2015 at 11:58, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 02/12/15 12:52, Barry Drake wrote: > > TIZEN >> >> They seem way ahead of Ubuntu in the phone market. I'm sad about that.> >> I've subscribed to one of their mailing lists to keep informed. > > > I talked to some of the Tizen developer guys - The told me their OS is so > locked in, you wouldn't recognise it as a Linux distro. You can't access > root at all, and a lot of the more powerful commandline items have been > removed! One guy's comment was 'If you are any kind of hacker, it is not > for you'. Sailfish (Jolla) is very much for the hacker and the developer. > But - you'll like this - several guys at Tizen said that the Ubuntu is the > best of the lot! They feel that if it could support Android, it would have > an enormous market! And the code Sailfish use for the Android platform is > mostly FOSS and downloadable straight from the Sailfish site.
I talked to the Tizen people at LinuxCon Europe in October. It is not as locked-down as all that, not for developers. But bear in mind, it's for semi-embedded use, for locked-down single-function or narrow-function devices with a rich UI. It's not a desktop distro or one for the end-user to get in and customise. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
