An independent, partner friendly operating system that fosters innovation. It’s unlike what you’re used to. But once you get the hang of the gesture based Sailfish OS, you’ll never want to go back. The highly adaptive
The world doesn’t need yet another smartphone – it needs a new way of thinking. That’s why Jolla was born. We want to challenge the dominant perceptions. We want to create an innovation platform for ideas, opportunities and openness. Open Jolla, a new way of thinking.
Pillar technology
The incredible, cross-platform Qt5.2 application framework provides Sailfish OS a powerful user experience design language known as QML.
Wayland
Sailfish OS comes with Wayland, a fully functional compositor doing window management and rendering graphics instead of the traditional X11.
Android support
Sailfish OS can run Android™ applications. It is based on open source Android libraries, ensuring performance comparable to the native environment.
Contributions
The core OS is based on Mer Project, an open source, mobile optimised distribution while the UI is proprietary software owned by Jolla. View our open projects in github and welcome to contribute code.
Mailing list
Discuss, ask or answer threads related to development of Sailfish OS on our mailing list.
IRC hangouts
Talk to us, discuss about the current progress and contributions or just say hello at Freenode #sailfishos IRC channel.