1. Seminar On
SAILFISH OPERATING SYSTEM
BY
VIJAYALAKSHMI.H.T
1DS10IS113

2. CONTENTS
• Introduction
• What is Sailfish OS?
• Origin
• Requirements
• Architecture
• Technology
• Design
• Applications

3. Introduction
• A mobile operating system, also called a mobile OS,
is an operating system that is specifically designed to
run on mobile devices such as mobile phones,
smartphones, PDAs, tablet computers and other
handheld devices.
• However, they currently deal more with wireless
versions of broadband and local connectivity.

4. EXISTING MOBILE OPERATING
SYSTEMS
• Symbian OS
• Android OS
• iPhone OS (iOS )
• BlackBerry OS
• Windows
• MeeGo OS

5. Why do we need yet another 'mobile' OS ?

6. “NO”
“No visibility”
“Yes.”
Visibility & influence
“No
influence”
“No visibility”

7. What is Sailfish OS?
 Linux based operating system
 Built on the heritage of MeeGo
 Runs Qt/QML, HTML5 and
Android apps
 Using Qt 5 & Wayland
 Developed by Jolla

8. ORIGIN
• MeeGo needed to evolve ... but died
• Mer was reborn
• Jolla was launched
• Sailfish OS was spawned

9. What is NOT Sailfish OS?
•NOT another Android based OS
•NOT fully open (Sailfish UI part is
currently closed)

10. Requirements
•Oracle Virtual Box 4.1.18 or newer
• About 5GB free disk space
• 4GB RAM (recommended)
Compatible platforms:
• Windows
• Linux

11. ARCHITECTURE
Sailfish UI
Mer
Linux Kernel

12. Contd…

13. Contd…
•Mer is FOSS mobile-optimized core distribution; powered by
Qt/QML and HTML5. The project is openly developed and
meritocratically governed.
•Which projects and products use Mer?
• Nemo Mobile
• Plasma Active
• Seadot
• Sailfish

14. TECHNOLOGY
• Native
• Android Runtime
• HTML5

15. DESIGN
• Effortless interaction
• True multitasking at its best
• Logical
• Integrated services

16. SAILFISH LETS YOU:
• Operate efficiently
• Deliver quickly
• Use your own code
• Focus on innovation

17. HOW?
• Customer focus
• Pragmatic
• Operating entirely in the open
• Being meritocratic
• Inclusive

18. HOW?
• User Interface
• Expertise
• Business partners
• An ecosystem

19. SAILFISH DELIVERS
• Compatibility
• Availability
• Flexibility

20. Applications
• Acer Iconia tab W500
• Google Nexus 4
• Google Nexus 7
• HP Mini
• Nokia N950 and Nokia N9

21. Conclusion
• More lightweight than Ubuntu on slower
devices.
• Has more apps due to the Android
compatibility layer.
• BB10 apps can be easily ported to Sailfish.
• Fully open source.

22. References
• http://www.sailfishos.org
• https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Main_Page#Contrib
ute
• https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Sailfish
• http://jolla.com
• http://merproject.org
• http://qt-project.org

23. THANK YOU