Tizen
Tizen (/ˈtaɪzɛn/) is a Linux-based mobile operating system backed by the Linux Foundation, developed and used primarily by Samsung Electronics.
Developer
Current
Open source with source available and proprietary components
April 30, 2012
8.0 M2 / October 31, 2023[1]
Smart TVs, embedded systems, previously: smartwatches and smartphones
- Operating system: GPLv2, LGPL, Apache License 2.0, BSD, Flora License
- SDK: Freeware
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]
Controversies[edit]
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.
