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Sailfish Alliance is the open alliance established in 2011 by Jolla company to develop Sailfish OS, a Linux operating system combining mer with proprietary components written by Jolla and other sides, for various devices in the mobile industry and continue to develop the Linux MeeGo ecosystem, as also the Sailfish OS is a part of it. Important parts are: * companies supporting and using developed code and software in various devices like netbooks, laptops, computers, mobiles, in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), cars, yachts, navigations, household goods etc. * hardware vendors * the merproject.org, which develop code of core on open source basis * the open source community by all means, especially Linux and MeeGo Harmattan enthusiasts. == Overview == "Sailfish Alliance is first and foremost a movement that will unite OEM and ODM manufacturers, chipset providers, operators, application developers and retailers. The key target is to bring innovation to a stagnating market and help mobile industry players to stay on the bleeding edge of the mobile OS development" – from the Jolla press release of November 21, 2012. The Sailfish OS software development kit (SDK) uses Qt with virtual box for development and support various systems like Android, Linux, iOS or Windows. This and the open source nature of SDK allow to shape and rebuild it for particular and specific needs of a company or an organization or a group of developers, what allow to create context specific environment. As Jolla's Sailfish OS uses the Mer core distribution, then various hardware and architectures can be used like ARM or Intel and many others. It is possible because the Mer core distribution does not contain any kernel, but libraries above the kernel and below user interface (UI) layers. To make a working Linux distribution, a kernel compatible with a particular hardware and UI are to be added – this creates the distribution of Linux Sailfish OS for particular hardware. Also this allows Sailfish OS to work on every hardware with appropriate kernel. Because of open source basis and rules, this can be used by all interested in using of those solutions e.g. to adopt for a particular hardware or any special needs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sailfish Alliance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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