Finnish company Jolla is following through on a promise to add more features to its Linux-based Sailfish OS, with plans to offer more personalization and a feature called “Events” that will show messages, calendar events and other information on the screen at once.

Since its inception in 2011, Jolla has bet on the Sailfish OS to differentiate it from the competition on smartphones and now tablets. Android and iOS may dominate the tablet space, but the success of a campaign by Jolla in which it sold 7,200 tablets on the Indiegogo crowdfunding site shows there is an appetite, albeit not very big, for products running other OSes.

As part of that campaign, Jolla pledged to make improvements to Sailfish 2.0, which will be out in the second quarter of next year, along with the company’s new tablet. A key Sailfish feature aimed at differentiation has been a start page that shows all running apps in a single view, which will be continued in the new version.

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