[dba-Tech] Check out the full Sailfish emulator

[Jim Lawrence]

Russia is officially moving most of its public and most of its private systems to a version of the Sailfish OS. Sailfish OS powers smartphones, tablets and now a new version that will power desktops.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/12/jolla_phone_ships_on_3_hong_kong

...and the Russian upgrade...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/19/russia_plans_fork_sailfish_combat_western_spooks
 
Sailfish, is a version of Linux and its development IDE can be downloaded and ran:

https://sailfishos.org/develop/sdk-overview/develop-installation-article

Note: The installation on Linux does not require going to terminal mode. Once the SDK has been downloaded, just right-mouse-click, select permissions and toggle the execute option...close and then right-mouse-click and select run. It only takes 100MB, trivial by today's standards. If you are using Ubuntu, you can just lock the shortcut to the launcher.  To run the full GUI smartphone emulator you must have VirtualBox installed via installation instructions but it is all fairly easy. Full setup took less time than it took to download.

PS There is also full documentation online plus an active forum: https://sailfishos.org/develop/docs

Jim