Wednesday, September 28, 2011

LiMo mobile OS Tizen inherited and MeeGo

LiMo mobile OS Tizen inherited and MeeGo

Intel and Samsung will work under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation on a new operating system. It should listen to the names and use pieces of Tizen MeeGo and LiMo. Rumors of such a merger were circulating as early as Tuesday. Key techniques are to be HTML5 and the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). In WAC is the product of a supported organization of many companies, which developed a unified platform for mobile widgets based on W3C standards.

Intel and Samsung lead the Technical Steering Group of decision-making body called Tizen. Similar to last at MeeGo Tizen is essentially aimed at smart phones, tablets and netbooks and infotainment systems for cars (in-vehicle infotainment / IVI) and TV hardware (Smart TV). Tizen the developers hope, in the first quarter of 2012 to bring out the first Tizen version and a development kit (SDK / Software Development Kit). The entire software stack from the core components of the main applications to the ordinary user interfaces should be open source. Qt, which was still in MeeGo key technology for Apps is not mentioned on the website Tizen.

Intel Developer Imad Sousou explained in a blog post on the website MeeGo some reasons for the founding of Tizen. On the question of why we have not simply developed Meego, he emphasizes the importance of HTML5 for Tizen; a move in this direction was much more than a simple change, get in the MeeGo a framework for Web apps. Many things in development Tizen to run similar Meego. Sousou MeeGo thanks the developers for their work and calls for collaboration on at Tizen.

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