Tizen 3.0 Milestone Released, Finishes Replacing X.Org With Wayland

[Akka]

They're putting development effort into Tizen.

But what's really the plan for Tizen?

Samsung use it in the new smart tvs

[Awesomeness]

Samsung use it in the new smart tvs

And in their smart watches and their cameras and so on. But hey, Tizen is dead, right?

[miskol]

they also provide test images for some developer devices

https://source.tizen.org/release/tizen-3.0-milestones

Release Details

• Getting source code and packages list
  • All tizen source code is maintained in git of tizen.org.
  • TV packages list is found in the latest snapshot and Mobile packages list is found in the latest snapshot.

• Getting binaries and images
  • TV binary: platform and bootloader/kernel
  • Mobile binary: platform (32bit / 64bit)

• How to flash to a device
  • XU3 (TV profile): https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Quick_guide_for_odroidxu3
  • XU4 (TV profile): https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Quick_guide_for_odroidxu4
  • Mobile profile: reference device for mobile profile is not available right now.

[Duve]

I think it's simply that Blink has Google behind it which means faster bug fixes and feature development?

That is what I mean, ever since the Blink forking.... I have not really heard anything in the Webkit camps. And I know for a fact that Apple doesn't want to touch the core of Webkit... which would be requited for some things in HTML5, CSS3 etc.

Maybe they have not been posting much unless you follow the git, but the fact that there is silence is rather telling.

[Ericg]

Did they switch from Upstart to systemd, too? Afaik Tizen 2.0 used Upstart as init daemon.

I don't know -when- they switched but the Tizen documentation explicitly states the systemd is the init system. https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Porting_Guide#systemd

[Nobu]

It's not every day, but there are still periodic postings on planet webkit. It's not like you can add a new feature every day, anyway.

[doom_Oo7]

Kernel 4.0 is EOL, GG

android uses 3.10 atm

[varikonniemi]

android uses 3.10 atm

Longterm support: 3.10.x
EOL: 4.0.x

So android is doing it way better.

[giucam]

Is nice to see that wayland brings more performance, for me the issue is on the desktop, running Xwayland applications will have its rendering overhead, and there are going to be lots of applications running in Xwayland, at least on the desktop....

Why do you say so? There is no rendering overhead.

[Guest]

Has anyone here seen the Gear 2 watch (runs Tizen) ? It's super cool! Has a speaker, microphone and a camera.