[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

[Liam Proven]

On 3 December 2015 at 11:58, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at 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.


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