Samsung will launch the first smartphone with the Linux distro Tizen next month. Tizen succeeds MeeGo and is also made by Samsung and Intel. There are no pictures and specs of the device.
It is unclear whether the Linux smartphone will be in the stores or whether it is just a test device for developers that will not be sold commercially. Samsung will make the first device with Tizen,it is in the release notes of the first alpha version of Tizen, who recently was put online.
The smartphone will probably not be a high-end device. The kernel of Tizen currently only supports the ARM Cortex A8 core. That processor is widely used in Samsung's Hummingbird processor, which were in the GalaxyS and the Nexus S and.
What is striking only ARM processors are supported,one of the leading companies in the Tizen Association, Intel, which tries to conquer the market with its own line of processors. The Medfield-SOC should be running on Android smartphones this year.
Tizen is succeeding MeeGo, the OS that Intel and Nokia developed together. MeeGo was in turn a combination of Linux and Intel Moblin and the Maemo from Nokia. There are a few products on the market with MeeGo. Nokia stopped in early 2011 with MeeGo, Intel pulled the plug this fall for them to focus on Tizen. Tizen must be distinguished because it is completely designed from html5.
Below the Tizen Arch:
