Linux-based mobile operating system
Linux distribution
Tizen OS
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Developer
| Linux Foundation
,
Samsung Electronics
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Written in
| HTML5
,
C
,
C++
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OS family
| Linux
(
Unix-like
)
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Working state
| Current
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Source model
| Open source
with
source available
and
proprietary
components
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Initial release
| April 30, 2012
; 12 years ago
(
2012-04-30
)
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Latest release
| 8.0 M2 / October 31, 2023
; 7 months ago
(
2023-10-31
)
[1]
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Repository
| |
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Marketing target
| Smart TVs
,
embedded systems
, previously:
smartwatches
and
smartphones
|
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Package manager
| RPM Package Manager
|
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Platforms
| ARM
,
ARM64
,
x86
, and
x86-64
|
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Kernel
type
| Monolithic
(
Linux
)
|
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Userland
| GNU
|
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Default
user interface
| Graphical
(native and web applications),
One UI
for Smartwatch and Smartphone
|
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License
| |
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Preceded by
| Orsay
(smart televisions)
Bada
(smartphones)
Android
(smartwatches and smart fridges)
|
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Succeeded by
| Wear OS
(smartwatches)
Android
(smartphones)
|
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Official website
| tizen
.org
|
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Tizen
(
) is a
Linux
-based
mobile operating system
backed by the
Linux Foundation
, developed and used primarily by
Samsung Electronics
.
The project was originally conceived as an
HTML5
-based platform for mobile devices to succeed
MeeGo
. Samsung merged its previous Linux-based OS effort,
Bada
, into Tizen and has since used it primarily on platforms such as
wearable devices
and
smart TVs
.
Much of Tizen is
open source software
, although the
software development kit
contains proprietary components owned by Samsung, and portions of the OS are licensed under the
Flora License
, a derivative of the
Apache License 2.0
that grants a patent license only to "Tizen-certified platforms".
In May 2021,
Google
announced that
Samsung
would partner with the company on integrating Tizen features into Google's
Android
-derived
Wear OS
and committed to using it on future wearables, leaving Tizen to be mainly developed for Samsung Smart TVs.
[2]
History
[
edit
]
| This article needs to be
updated
.
Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.
(
December 2018
)
|
The project was initiated as
mobile Linux
and was launched by
Intel
in July 2007. In April 2009 the operating system updated to version 2.0 which was based on
Fedora
. However, in the same month, Intel turned Moblin over to the
Linux Foundation
for future development. Eventually, the operating system was merged with
Nokia
Maemo
, a
Debian
based Linux distro, into
MeeGo
which was mainly developed by Nokia, Intel and Linux Foundation.
In 2011, after Nokia abandoned the project, Linux Foundation initiated the Tizen project as a successor to MeeGo, another Linux-based mobile operating system, with its main backer Intel joining
Samsung Electronics
, as well as
Access Co.
,
NEC Casio
,
NTT DoCoMo
,
Panasonic Mobile
,
SK Telecom
,
Telefonica
, and
Vodafone
as commercial partners. Tizen would be designed to use
HTML5
apps, and target mobile and embedded platforms such as
netbooks
, smartphones, tablets,
smart TVs
, and
in-car entertainment
systems.
[3]
U.S. carrier
Sprint Corporation
(which was a backer of MeeGo) joined the
Tizen Association
in May 2012.
[4]
On September 16, 2012,
Automotive Grade Linux
announced its intent to use Tizen as the basis of its reference distribution.
[5]
In January 2013, Samsung announced its intent to release multiple Tizen-based phones that year. In February 2013, Samsung merged its
Bada
operating system into Tizen.
[6]
[7]
In October 2013, the first Tizen tablet was shipped by Systena. The tablet was part of a development kit exclusive to Japan.
[8]
[9]
[10]
In 2014, Samsung released the
Gear 2
smartwatch
that used a Tizen-based operating system as opposed to
Android
.
[11]
On May 14, 2014, it was announced that Tizen would ship with Qt.
[12]
This project was abandoned in January 2017.
[13]
On February 21, 2016, Samsung announced the Samsung Connect Auto, a
connected car
solution offering diagnostic,
Wi-Fi
, and other car-connected services. The device plugs directly into the
OBD-II
port underneath the steering wheel.
[14]
On November 16, 2016, Samsung said they would be collaborating with Microsoft to bring
.NET Core
support to Tizen.
[15]
According to Strategy Analytics research, approximately 21% of the smart TVs sold in 2018 run on the Tizen platform making it the most popular smart TV platform.
[16]
On May 19, 2021, during
Google I/O
, Google announced that Samsung had agreed to work on integrating features of Tizen with the next version of
Wear OS
, and that it had committed to using Wear OS for its future wearable products.
[17]
[18]
[19]
Samsung will continue to use Tizen for its smart TVs.
[20]
On December 31, 2021, the Tizen app store permanently closed.
[21]
The last smartphone based on the Tizen operating system is the
Samsung Z4
which was released in 2017. The company switched to Google's
Wear OS 3
platform on its
Galaxy Watch 4
smartwatches.
[22]
[23]
Releases
[
edit
]
- Tizen 1.0: April 30, 2012
[24]
- Tizen 2.0: February 18, 2013
[25]
- Tizen 2.1: May 18, 2013
[26]
- Tizen 2.2: July 22, 2013
[27]
- Tizen 2.2.1: November 9, 2013
[28]
- Tizen 2.3: February 9, 2015
[29]
- Tizen 2.3.1: September 3, 2015
[30]
- Tizen 2.3.1 Rev1: November 13, 2015
- Tizen 2.3.2: September 3, 2016
[31]
- Tizen 2.3.2 Patch: December 23, 2016
- Tizen 2.4: October 30, 2015
[32]
- Tizen 2.4 Rev1: December 1, 2015
- Tizen 2.4 Rev2: December 23, 2015
- Tizen 2.4 Rev3: February 5, 2016
- Tizen 2.4 Rev4: March 4, 2016
- Tizen 2.4 Rev5: April 4, 2016
- Tizen 2.4 Rev6: May 19, 2016
- Tizen 2.4 Rev7: June 30, 2016
- Tizen 2.4 Rev8: August 2, 2016
- Tizen 3.0: January 18, 2017
- Tizen IVI 3.0 (In-Vehicle Infotainment): April 22, 2014
[33]
[34]
- Tizen 3.0 Milestones (M1): September 17, 2015
[35]
- Tizen 3.0 Public M2: January 18, 2017
[36]
- Tizen 3.0 Public M3: July 5, 2017
[37]
- Tizen 3.0 Public M4: November 30, 2017
[38]
- Tizen 4.0: May 31, 2017
- Tizen 4.0 Public M1: May 31, 2017
[39]
- Tizen 4.0 Public M2: November 1, 2017
[40]
- Tizen 4.0 Public M3: August 31, 2018
[41]
- Tizen 5.0: May 31, 2018
- Tizen 5.0 Public M1: May 31, 2018
[42]
- Tizen 5.0 Public M2: October 30, 2018
[43]
- Tizen 5.5: May 31, 2019
- Tizen 5.5 Public M1: May 31, 2019
[44]
- Tizen 5.5 Public M2: October 30, 2019
[45]
- Tizen 5.5 Public M3: August 27, 2020
[46]
- Tizen 6.0: May 31, 2020
- Tizen 6.0 Public M1: May 31, 2020
[47]
- Tizen 6.0 Public M2: October 27, 2020
[48]
- Tizen 6.5: May 31, 2021
- Tizen 6.5 Public M1: May 31, 2021
[49]
- Tizen 6.5 Public M2: October 31, 2021
[50]
- Tizen 7.0: May 31, 2022
- Tizen 7.0 Public M1: May 31, 2022
[51]
- Tizen 7.0 Public M2: October 31, 2022
[52]
- Tizen 8.0: May 31, 2023
- Tizen 8.0 Public M1: May 31, 2023
[53]
- Tizen 8.0 Public M2: October 31, 2023
[1]
Compatible devices
[
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Smartwatch
[
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Camera
[
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Smartphone
[
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Television
[
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]
- Samsung Smart TVs since 2015
[54]
Appliances
[
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]
- Family Hub 3.0 Refrigerator
[55]
LED Wall controllers
[
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]
Controversies
[
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]
On April 3, 2017,
Vice
reported on its "Motherboard" website that Amihai Neiderman, an Israeli security expert, has found more than 40
zero-day vulnerabilities
in Tizen's code, allowing hackers to remotely access a wide variety of current Samsung products running Tizen, such as Smart TVs and mobile phones.
[57]
After the article was published, Samsung, whom Neiderman tried to contact months before, reached out to him to resolve the issues.
[57]
TizenRT
[
edit
]
In December 2016, Samsung created TizenRT,
[58]
a fork of
NuttX
, a
real-time operating system
(
RTOS
), for smart home appliances and IoT devices.
See also
[
edit
]
References
[
edit
]
- ^
a
b
"Tizen 8.0 Public M2"
.
tizen.org
.
- ^
Gartenberg, Chaim (2021-05-23).
"Google's new Samsung smartwatch partnership looks a lot like giving up"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2024-04-30
.
- ^
Ricker, Thomas (2011-09-28).
"MeeGo is dead: Resurrected as Tizen, the newest Linux-based open source OS"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
Robertson, Adi (2012-05-07).
"Sprint becomes first North American carrier to join Tizen Association"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
Best, Jo.
"Tizen Linux heads for vehicles as car makers and tech firms form workgroup"
.
ZDNet
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
Byford, Sam (2013-02-25).
"Samsung finally folding Bada OS into Tizen"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
Souppouris, Aaron (2013-01-03).
"Samsung confirms it will launch multiple Tizen handsets this year"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
Brown, Eric (June 27, 2013).
"World's first Tizen tablet?"
.
LinuxGizmos.com
. Archived from
the original
on July 2, 2013
. Retrieved
February 23,
2014
.
- ^
Brown, Eric (25 October 2013).
"First Tizen tablet ships to developers"
.
LinuxGizmos.com
. Archived from
the original
on October 28, 2013
. Retrieved
February 23,
2014
.
- ^
Buckley, Sean (October 25, 2013).
"First Tizen tablet launches in Japan, caters exclusively to developers"
.
Engadget
. Archived from
the original
on January 25, 2014
. Retrieved
February 23,
2014
.
- ^
Savov, Vlad (2014-02-22).
"Samsung drops Android for Tizen in new Gear 2 smartwatches"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2019-01-21
.
- ^
"Tizen:Common to Ship with Qt Integrated"
.
tizenexperts.com
. 14 May 2014.
- ^
"Tizen - Qt Wiki"
.
wiki.qt.io
.
- ^
"Samsung Ushers in a New Era of Driving Experience with Samsung Connect Auto"
. February 21, 2016
. Retrieved
March 10,
2018
.
- ^
"Samsung announces .NET Core support and Visual Studio Tools for Tizen OS"
.
MSPoweruser
. November 16, 2016.
- ^
"Samsung's Tizen OS dominates global smart TV market"
. March 25, 2019
. Retrieved
August 23,
2019
.
- ^
Amadeo, Ron (2021-05-18).
"Google, Samsung, and Fitbit team up to save Wear OS"
.
Ars Technica
. Retrieved
2021-05-19
.
- ^
"Google and Samsung team up to create a new OS named 'Wear'
"
.
SamNext
. 2021-05-18
. Retrieved
2021-05-19
.
- ^
Welch, Chris (2021-05-18).
"Google and Samsung are merging Wear OS and Tizen"
.
The Verge
. Retrieved
2021-05-19
.
- ^
Adhikari, Sumit (2021-05-21).
"Samsung TVs Will Continue To Use Tizen OS"
.
Android Headlines
. Retrieved
2021-06-15
.
- ^
Beguwala, Esmail (10 January 2022).
"Samsung shuts down Tizen app store"
.
onlytech.com
. Retrieved
2022-04-21
.
- ^
"Samsung shuts down the Tizen app store"
.
GSMArena.com
. Retrieved
2022-04-21
.
- ^
"Samsung officially shuts down its Tizen app store"
.
The Times of India
. 10 January 2022
. Retrieved
2022-04-21
.
- ^
"Tizen 1.0 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.0 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.1 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.2 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.2.1 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.3 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.3.1 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.3.2 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 2.4 Release Notes"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen IVI 3.0 Milestones"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen Common milestones"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 3.0 Milestones"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 3.0 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 3.0 Public M3"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 3.0 Public M4"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 4.0 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 4.0 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 4.0 Public M3"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 5.0 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 5.0 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 5.5 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 5.5 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 5.5 Public M3"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 6.0 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 6.0 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 6.5 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 6.5 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 7.0 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 7.0 Public M2"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
"Tizen 8.0 Public M1"
. Tizen.org.
- ^
Silva, Robert (31 December 2020).
"Samsung's Tizen Smart TV Operating System"
.
lifewire.com
. Retrieved
21 February
2022
.
- ^
"Side-by-Side Refrigerator with Family Hub (RS27T5561SR) | Samsung US"
.
Samsung Electronics America
. Retrieved
2020-06-25
.
- ^
"accessories | SBB-SNOWJ3U | Samsung Display Solutions"
.
displaysolutions.samsung.com
. Retrieved
2019-10-31
.
- ^
a
b
Zetter, Kim (April 3, 2017).
"Samsung's Android Replacement Is a Hacker's Dream"
.
Motherboard
. Retrieved
2020-06-30
.
- ^
TizenRT repo
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to
Tizen
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Items
in italics
are no longer maintained or have planned end-of-life dates.
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Open source
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R&D centers
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- Central South America
- China
- CIS
- Europe
- Japan
- Middle East
- North America
- South East Asia
- South Asia
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Joint ventures
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Hardware products
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