Halium is an Open Source Project Working Towards a Common Base for Non-Android Mobile Operating Systems
Halium is an Open Source Project Working Towards a Common Base for Non-Android Mobile Operating Systems
The xda-developers blog looks
at Project Halium. "This open-source project is trying to pool
developers from Ubuntu Touch ports, Sailfish OS community developers, the
open webOS Lune OS project, and KDE Plasma Mobile contributors, among other
developers (Jolla, we suspect) to put an end to the fragmentation seen in
their respective project’s lower-level base. Currently, Ubuntu Touch,
Sailfish OS/Mer, Plasma Mobile, and others use different Android source
trees and methods for differently-built stacks. This leads to a lot of
fragmentation among the most popular non-Android, GNU/Linux-based mobile OS
projects in their use of the Android source tree, how the Android init is
started, and how images are flashed to the device. Many of these projects
essentially do the same job, but in a different way.
" The goal of
Halium is to work towards a common Linux base, which can be used by
all of these different projects.