Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0

An anonymous reader writes "Sailfish, the Linux-based mobile operating system developed by Finnish devicemaker Jolla, has reached version 1.0. Sailfish arose from the ashes of several failed and interrupted projects to bring a new, major Linux-based platform to mobile devices. It's already running on phones sold in India and Russia, but more importantly, Sailfish was designed to be easily ported to existing Android devices. It's also built to support many Android apps. Jolla will begin providing complete firmware downloads during the first half of the year."

The obvious question

[Chrisq]

The obvious question that everyone will be asking is "why should I install this rather than cyanogenmod [cyanogenmod.org], firefox OS [mozilla.org] or replicant [replicant.us] if I really mistrust big business?

Re:TREE FALLS IN THE FOREST AND NO ONE IS THERE !!

[Zontar The Mindless]

I always care about having more choices. Why do you hate our freedoms?

Waiting for Nexus 4 image

[c.r.o.c.o]

I almost don't care how buggy it will be, as soon as Jolla or someone else will release a fully functional image for my Nexus 4, I will flash it.

I am already running CM10.2 without a Google Account or any Google Apps for that mattet, and source all my apps from f-droid. So in my case the tether has been cut about 4 months ago, and I do not miss Google one bit.

Switching back to Sailfish, having used Maemo and Meego in the past, will be awesome. Looking forward to it.