Development board lovers, some news for you today. Our friend Leon, with the assistance of his colleagues in the Konsulko Group, has successfully built Tizen:Common with Linux kernel 3.14.14 using Yocto. The target dev board is the HummingBoard-i2eX (Freescale i.MX6 SoC) and interestingly hardware accelerated graphics is supported in Wayland/Weston 1.6. He used the […]
Tizen is a linux based operating system that is well suited as being a multi platform OS such as phones, cameras, watches, TV and even vehicles . As we know, Tizen is the OS of everything and boasts excellent HTML5 support. It combines cutting edge open source technologies such as Wayland and the Crosswalk […]
Our friend Leon Anavi has been busy with the Internet of Things, and in this case its the ESP8266 connecting to the cloud using MQTT and the open source project ESP8266-jajda. Previously he has covered how to set up MQTT broker in a Linux container, and now he goes through the details of connecting […]
The following is a video recorded at FOSDEM 2015, entitled Porting Tizen Common to open source hardware devices, presented by Philippe Coval and Leon Anavi, in which it Introduces you to the Tizen platform development and provides you the technical details with regards to the Tizen:Common porting efforts to Allwinner A10/A20, Rockchip RK3188/RK3288 ARM […]
Our friend Leon Anavi, a software engineer and open source enthusiast, has recorded a video in which he provides the directions for you to get started in creating your own Do it Yourself (DIY) Tizen device using hardware & software. He also gives a walk through of the Tizen architecture, platform development and compatibility […]
Tizen Common is a baseline Operating system that other profile / devices can be targeted off like mobile, wearable , IVI (In-Vehicle-Infortainment). Leon Anavi has been working on porting Tizen Common 3.0 to the Firefly-RK3288 development board. This device has Rockchip RK3288 quad-core Cortex-A17 ARM SoC with Mali GPU. The board also has 2GB […]
Tizen Cookbook We recently ran a giveaway for the Tizen Cookbook by Leon Anavi and now there is another great offer that is available to you. Packt Publishing are offering any eBook or Video of your choice for only $5 and you can get as many as you want until 6th January 2015. Grab […]
MinnowBoard MAX is an excellent open source embedded hardware platform based on Intel Atom E38xx 64-Bit Bay Trail System on Chips (SoC), which is quite versatile to our Tizen developer community. Our friend Leon Anavi got a MinnowBoard MAX board during the recent Tizen Developer Summit in Shanghai earlier this year and the first […]
Exciting times are ahead for Tizen as we see it being run on SO MANY different development boards. Here is a Demonstration on how to boot Tizen Common on the open source hardware development board Radxa Rock (with Rockchip RK3188 ARM SoC), booting from a MicroSD card. Video Links Tizen-Rockchip: https://github.com/leon-anavi/tizen-rockchip Radxa […]
We previously ran a giveaway in collaboration with Packt Publishing to see who could win an e-copy of the newly released book "Tizen Cookbook" by Leon Anavi. To win the book, all you needed to do is comment the reason “why you would like to win this book”. The Winners The lucky Winners […]
Some great news guys, we previously reported on Leon Anavi getting Tizen:Common running on the open source hardware Development Board Radxa Rock with RK3188 SoC (ARM Cortex-A9 quad core @ 1.6Ghz and Mali400-mp4 GPU), well now he has overcome some of the display issues that he was facing. The Tizen:Common image is available to […]
Our friend Leon Anavi is at it again !!!! What I mean by that vague statement is that he is porting Tizen onto another Development Board, in this case the Radxa Rock dev board that supports the Rockchip RK3188 SoC, which is a 28nm 1.8Ghz quad core ARM Cortex A9 and quad core Mali […]
Some good news, our friend Leon Anavi has had his very own Tizen book published entitled "Tizen Cookbook", which will help developers create and publish their own Tizen Apps! Leon is a regular contributor to Qt for Tizen, Tizen projects, and various other open source projects. He is the founder of the open source project […]
Tizen-Sunxi Tizen-sunxi is the name of an open-source project that aims to port Tizen to Allwinner A-Series processors. Sunxi represents the family of ARM SoC (System on Chip) processors that are made by Allwinner Tech. Tizen Common We have an updated image of Tizen:Common for A20-OLinuXino-MICRO courtesy of Leon Anavi, which is based on […]
Bulgaria was host to a special event, the first ever TuxCon conference, a community-driven event to promote free and open-source software for mobile, embedded and wearable devices. Speakers from all over Bulgaria and also some International ones took part to make the event an overall success, with many patron's feeling they will visit again […]
Leon Anavi has been working on the Tizen sunxi project, and has also been involved with porting tizen to open source hardware devices. Now he has began getting Tizen to run on a commercially available Android tablet which has an Allwinner processor in it. The target device in this case was a Serioux Surya […]
Leon Anavi was at the recent Tizen Developer Conference, and presented a session entitled Porting Tizen to open source hardware devices for beginners. He discusses Open Source hardware and provides details about the porting process, as well as guidelines on how to select appropriate developer boards and to build DIY devices, like the Tizen […]
Tizen-sunxi is a community driven port of Tizen for devices with Allwinner processors. So far at the git repository of the projects are available instructions for booting Tizen on couple of open-source hardware boards from the OlinuXino family as well as Tizen images for download. Right now Philippe "Rzr" Coval is working on Tizen […]
One of the developer's that is engaging more with Tizen, and the Tizen community is our very own Lean Anavi. Leon has been involved with the Tizen wiki, porting Tizen to Sunxi devices, and also porting Qt to Tizen. In addition to this he has had the opportunity to talk about Tizen at several conferences […]
Here are some details regarding my lightning talk about "How to build Tizen device (in Bulgaria)". The key focus is on open-source hardware devices, Do it Yourself (DIY) tablet, DIY laptop and Tizen-sunxi: https://github.com/leon-anavi/tizen-sunxi. Please give the project a star in github if you find it useful 🙂 Tizen belongs on all devices and […]
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