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There is Tizen which is being led by Samsung

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-ope...

I remember reading about Plasma Mobile

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

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

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.

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.

Didn't find it on HN, is this the daily wtf post you mentioned?

https://forums.thedailywtf.com/topic/21368/samsung-insisting...

Sorry, was on Mobile*

The story was Samsung's Tizen is riddled with security flaws, amateurishly written

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14036965

Read this one:

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened/2

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.

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.

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