[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

[Barry Drake]

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.

Regards,		Barry.
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