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With iPhone a closed platform, Linux gets an wide-open road for phones and other smart devices Linux developers have been dying for a phone of their own ever since Sharp killed the Zaurus Linux-based ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

In another indication of the momentum behind the idea of Linux on mobile phones but also of the fragmentation that plagues the segment, a startup company on Monday announced an open Linux mobile ...

The Linux Phone Standards Forum has fully released its first mobile Linux standard, completing the half-specification it released in June While Google’s Linux mobile phone platform, Android, has been ...

Those who follow the development of Linux as an operating system for running mobile phones, voice-enabled PDAs and other communications gadgets should keep an eye on LiPS. The Linux Phone ...

This was another busy week in tech, with the arrival of the repairable Fairphone 6, big updates for Windows 11, Dell's XPS replacement laptops, an exciting update for Linux phones, and much more. Here ...

CORRECTION: The fourth paragraph of this story has been changed to clarify when the software first became available. A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM ...

Palm is apparently shipping out mobile phones with Linux on them sometime this year. Rumor has it that they’ll be using Wind River Linux to power the devices—that’s the same company that makes the OS ...

Linux may have taken another step towards mobile ubiquity with a new initiative from Trolltech called Greensuite. Following the release earlier this year of its fully programmable Linux handset, the ...

The open-source system, which features a modular architecture, is already dominating the smartphone market. Seemingly, mobile operating systems have reached the point where they're all "good enough" ...