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There is Tizen which is being led by Samsung https://www.tizen.org https://www.tizen.org However news that one researcher has found 40 0-days for it doesn't r

by Jonnax 10y ago

There is Tizen which is being led by Samsung https://www.tizen.org https://www.tizen.org However news that one researcher has found 40 0-days for it doesn't really sound good: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-operating-system-bugs-vulnerabilities https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/samsung-tizen-ope... I remember reading about Plasma Mobile https://plasma-mobile.org https://plasma-mobile.org But it looks like the latest phone they use as a Dev device is a Nexus 5x so it may be stalled/dead

thanksgiving 10y ago
Someone linked to two daily wtf on hn the other day and that to me shows tizen under the current management is not simply useless but actively harmful.
- distances 10y ago
  Code quality seems to be a large issue for Samsung in general (no sources, but some first-hand experience). My gut feeling is that it's caused by the extremely bureaucratic Korean corporate culture. Though I'm sure someone who has actually worked there could shed some light to this phenomenon.
- pawadu 10y ago
  Didn't find it on HN, is this the daily wtf post you mentioned? https://forums.thedailywtf.com/topic/21368/samsung-insisting-on-tizen https://forums.thedailywtf.com/topic/21368/samsung-insisting...
  - thanksgiving 10y ago
    Sorry, was on Mobile* The story was Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036965
- doppioandante 10y ago
  Read this one: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2 https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2
- deleted 10y ago
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realharo 10y ago
Tizen is no more "open" than Android. Samsung keeps all the extra services just as closed as Google.
_pmf_ 10y ago
What I found out only recently is that Tizen's UI uses Enlightenment's foundation libraries (EFL), which made me kind of interested in getting a device running it.
- pavlov 10y ago
  Samsung has a range of smartwatches and wearables that run full Tizen (Gear S2, Gear S3, Gear Fit 2). You can install custom software on these devices, and even SSH in over Wi-fi (which sounds like a crazy thing to do on a watch!). I made a native EFL app for the Gear S2/S3 that did ship (the client was an European airline). The tools are kind of retro (compared to e.g. Xcode), but they work.

by Jonnax 10y ago

thanksgiving 10y ago

Someone linked to two daily wtf on hn the other day and that to me shows tizen under the current management is not simply useless but actively harmful.

distances 10y ago
Code quality seems to be a large issue for Samsung in general (no sources, but some first-hand experience). My gut feeling is that it's caused by the extremely bureaucratic Korean corporate culture. Though I'm sure someone who has actually worked there could shed some light to this phenomenon.
pawadu 10y ago
Didn't find it on HN, is this the daily wtf post you mentioned? https://forums.thedailywtf.com/topic/21368/samsung-insisting-on-tizen https://forums.thedailywtf.com/topic/21368/samsung-insisting...
- thanksgiving 10y ago
  Sorry, was on Mobile* The story was Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036965
doppioandante 10y ago
Read this one: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2 https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2
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realharo 10y ago

Tizen is no more "open" than Android. Samsung keeps all the extra services just as closed as Google.

_pmf_ 10y ago

What I found out only recently is that Tizen's UI uses Enlightenment's foundation libraries (EFL), which made me kind of interested in getting a device running it.

pavlov 10y ago
Samsung has a range of smartwatches and wearables that run full Tizen (Gear S2, Gear S3, Gear Fit 2). You can install custom software on these devices, and even SSH in over Wi-fi (which sounds like a crazy thing to do on a watch!). I made a native EFL app for the Gear S2/S3 that did ship (the client was an European airline). The tools are kind of retro (compared to e.g. Xcode), but they work.