Tizen: Open source Intel/Linux Foundation-backed mobile/device OS

So, yet another Linux distribution (why do they keep calling it an OS is beyond me) backed up by Intel... Why?<p>Why do they think they need a new OS for "Html5 apps" and not make evolve MeeGo, except for political reasons?<p>Why do they think they need to restrict the APIs, like in MeeGo (and it took them quite some time) for desktop or for Html5 applications; why not just check the requirements at the publishing stage on their appstore?<p>I might be missing something obvious...

From a source that was at Nokia/Meego: "Summary: Intel has joined LiMo project. Samsung has renamed it to save Intel's face. Qt is abandoned and KDE too is hurt unless . . . unless HTC takes MeeGo!"

Yet another start of a mobile Linux backed by Intel, yet another, non-backwards-compatible UI stack.<p>Previous ones were: Moblin (Gtk and Clutter) and MeeGo (Qt and QML). Now Tizen (HTML5, whatever that means in this case). Will be hard to convince developers that they'll really stick to this one.

"Tizen will provide a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5 and Wholesale Applications Community (WAC)"<p>I hadn't heard of WAC before. WAC's about page makes it sound like an app store and a set of APIs [1]. Whatever that actually means, WAC has backing by a <i>lot</i> of big companies [2].<p>[1] <a href="http://www.wacapps.net/what-is-wac" rel="nofollow">http://www.wacapps.net/what-is-wac</a><p>[2] <a href="http://www.wacapps.net/our-members" rel="nofollow">http://www.wacapps.net/our-members</a>

Tizen appears to be replacing MeeGo. The MeeGo blog has a post "What's next for MeeGo": <a href="https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/whats-next-meego" rel="nofollow">https://meego.com/community/blogs/imad/2011/whats-next-meego</a><p>As Samsung are on board, I guess Tizen may be taking parts of their existing Linux platform: <a href="http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/02/samsung-is-backing-linux-slp.html" rel="nofollow">http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/2011/02/samsung-is-backing-...</a>

OK, look, my head is spinning here. This quote from The Verge:<p>//The MeeGo project is already encouraging its members to make the transition to Tizen, going so far as to say that it believes the “future belongs to HTML5-based applications, outside of a relatively small percentage of apps, and we are firmly convinced that our investment needs to shift toward HTML5.”<p>I just don't understand how this then differs from webOS! Can someone make this clear to me? Why reinvent the wheel? Do they feel webOS is now cursed or what?<p>From a coder's perspective, what's the real difference here?<p>[typo edit]

This seems destined for mediocrity. Lacking vision and passion.<p>"Lets create a linux platform for every single device that isn't a computer."<p>Bleh.

Hum.. the name sounds that it's something that came from Texas Instruments: "Texas Instruments Zen"

It's interesting to see Samsung in the dev team, does that mean Bada will be joining the new OS?

Open source webOS replacement with Web Intents, SSE, etc? Yes, please. Where do I sign up? I'd like to know how this stacks up to boot2gecko (which theoretically can already reach all of the Android devices that CM runs on.

I think the development stack should be based on native elements instead of GTK or Qt or HTML5, it may include have a web based development and native including C++/Java.Idea , purely, based on WebOS really sucks.