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Samsung is joining the Linux Foundation as a Platinum member, which gives it a seat on the Foundation’s Board of Directors. At the same time, the Korean giant has the opportunity to participate with the kernel community and adopt open source best practices. Linux is not just about phones — though Android is a Linux-based…
Before we get to today’s news, you need some backstory: Nokia started work on a Linux based mobile operating system called Maemo back in 2005. It got better over time, just have a look at the Nokia N9 to get an idea of what we’re talking about. Now Maemo wasn’t the only Linux mobile OS…
Anyone remember Palm and webOS? The fundamentals of that operating system were way ahead of their time. What Palm did was essentially create a Linux based operating system, make all the APIs that you’d need for calling, texting, etc., and then they decided to build the webOS user interface in HTML and JavaScript. That’s right,…
Google’s mobile operating system, Android, is based on Linux. Nokia on the other hand ships a majority of their smartphones based on the Symbian operating system. Back in February of last year, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told the world that the Finnish handset vendor would get rid of Symbian, release just one Linux based (Maemo/MeeGo)…
Once upon a time, on a cold winter day in Finland, a couple of Nokia engineers began work on a project called Maemo. The goal was to create a brand new mobile operating system based on Linux that had no relationship to Symbian, which at the time was the world’s most popular smartphone platform. The…
Back in July we brought you news of Mozilla’s new smartphone operating system called “Boot to Gecko”, known as B2G for short. It’s essentially Android under the hood, but with a user interface that’s built using web technologies, so it “borrows” the principles behind Palm’s failed webOS. Now when we wrote up that article it…
Late last month we brought you news (technically a rumor) of a brand spanking new operating system that Nokia is in the process of working on called Meltemi that’s said to be based on Linux and will be put on low end devices. Today we’ve discovered a job listing on Nokia’s website that pretty much…
Oh boy, here we go again. Every year we write about companies tinkering around with Linux in order to provide the market with an “alternative” open operating system that anyone can use. Nokia kicked things off with their tablet like devices that ran an operating system called Maemo. Intel was also working on their own…
LiMo Foundation — a global consortium of mobile operators, device and technology vendors which seems to be desperately fighting for its place under the Sun — approved the four classes of devices that will “underpin the commercial launch of LiMo 4 devices” in the market. The four classes of devices mentioned include flagship smartphones, mid-tier…
SPB Software is bringing its SPB TV application to the Maemo platform – i.e. Nokia N900. I’m not sure I understand their decision to launch an app for a device that’s used by very few people in the world, but what do I know. Maybe bits (or large chunks) of the code could be re-used…