Only last week Samsung pushed out a press release announcing its new mobile operating system, named Bada. Little is known about this new operating system beyond the name of the project, but thanks to Phoronix, we know a little detail that might indicate what, exactly, Bada will be like. As it turns out, Samsung is sponsoring the Enlightenment project.
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2005-07-06
This is fantastic news for Enlightenment! I have been very impressed with E17 every time I used it, but it was always hard to build and sometimes very buggy. Hopefully this Sponsorship make it possible for raster to fully flex his genius programming abilities and push E17 into the mainstream.
Member since:2005-10-12
Yes, its great news for them, and its also, lets give credit, a brave and enterprising move by Samsung. One wonders who approached who. If it was Samsung, really, good for them.
Time to fire it up again and try using it full time for a couple of weeks and see how it goes. At the moment I am on fluxbox, which is very nice, it stays out of the way, and its fast. But E, its a real jewel in the crown, and fluxbox by comparison is a bit dull.
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2006-01-04
Calling it an OS is just speculation. I think it is more like an application layer. Maybe it is just Enlightenment + proprietary kernel.
(This link http://www.appscout.com/2009/11/samsung_bada_opens_up_feature.php seems to confirm that.)
Member since:2009-09-17
I dunno, so far its all been marketing speak, so its hard to tell what it is exactly. While the overwhelming vagueness even for a press releases means we should assume as little as possible and thats leaves bada with not much, it doesn't change the fact that if Samsung wants in on the smartphone game, they need an os. Snapping up existing technologies is the fastest and cheapest way of getting a competitive os (and at this point I don't think anyone but Mircosoft could put together a new proprietary os to compete with the existing crop), so if Bada won't be their os, what will?
I'm glad enlightenment found some backing, they have always been able to produce a very attractive environment that could run on lower end hardware, but their pace of development has been glacial. Hopefully this will help things a bit and the mobile sector is a good fit for their technologies.
Edited 2009-11-18 20:11 UTC
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Enlightenment is one of the best window managers, efficient and beautiful, though I remember seeing a video of it ported to the open moko and other devices using arm based processors, really a smart move since its been under heavy development and at the brink of stability, cant wait to see it happen 
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