Tizen Reaches 1.0

Earlier today, Tizen, Intel's post-MeeGo mobile OS, announced the availability of their first stable release. The H has a summary of the new features: "The source code for Tizen's Larkspur release has seen a number of new features added. The Web capabilities have now got full W3C/HTML5 specification support with 'key' WebRTC features incorporated and APIs to access the local camera and vibration. ... Tizen's graphics are based on X11 with a compositing window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries ... The SDK's IDE includes a new browser based tool which offers support for the Tizen APIs within a browser; this should allow developers to run and debug Tizen 'web applications' and see how those applications run with various device profiles. The alpha release of the browser based simulator should reduce the need to work with the emulator for many applications." The SDK release notes and source release notes have the gritty details. A new community wiki has been created, and source is available via git. This release comes just before the first Tizen developer conference, May 7-9th in San Francisco.

Re:Not a real succesor or maemo/meego?

[Microlith]

Yet. Samsung will be bringing devices to the conference next week. The rumored hardware is the I9500, but the details are sparse as to the specs. Of course, for some reason these platforms need to have devices on the market... before there are devices on the market.

At least Samsung seems more serious about this than Intel (who like to throw around money) and less likely to suffer a coup d'etat like Nokia...

Re:Tail wagging the dog.

[dbIII]

Nokia's future may depend on under the radar skunkworks projects that they can keep going while their seagull management craps on everything he can see before flying off. They never actually spent much on Maemo or Meego while they were under serious consideration anyway.