Hewlett - Packard release two beta interlingual rendition of its open source webOS on Friday : one for developer that incline on the Ubuntu Linux screen background , and one for the “ OpenEmbedded ” growing environment , intended to serve developer port webOS to new devices .

The August Edition , as the webOS teamcalls the late releaseon the project website , consists of 45 undefendable author webOS components and 450,000 lines of codification . The two versions were released under the Apache 2.0 permission , which is one of the most giving and accept in the open source community , the team said .

The beta desktop material body include a rendering of the webOS System Manager that will lead as an software on the Ubuntu desktop , the team wrote . System Manager ’s routine admit rendering the webOS Card View , Launcher , Status Bar and other user user interface factor . Core webOS program such as Calendar and Contacts run within System Manager , and the Modern version also bear out apps built with the third party JavaScript framework Enyo , the team add together .

Releasing a version of webOS for the OpenEmbedded platform was a natural option , the squad say , because of its far-flung community acceptation , excellent ill-tempered - compiling support for embedded platforms and support for multiple hardware architecture , the squad write . The OpenEmbedded build of webOS admit an ARM emulator to run meat divine service such as db8 and node.js , the team say .

Bothbuildswere unloosen on GitHub , and the webOS team encourage the residential district to discuss features , bugs and fixes to enhance the beta vent .

The two beta versions are not the first germ code releases from the Open webOS squad . In JuneHP releasedthe webOS Community Edition , a version of webOS that can be used on legacy TouchPad pad . The squad made some progress with that and the latest release , called LunaCe , bring new features including novel gesture - free-base app shift and Card Stack Tabs , which give up users to stack and group their open windows .

HP declare eight months ago that it would release the codification behind webOS after it decided to stop producing phone and tablet using the operating organization . The release was contrive for September , it pronounce at the clip .

The overt webOS squad suppose on Friday that it will announce further plans for the open source OS with the September release .