Linux mobile OS
Two news items today triggered this article:
1) Nokia today announced they will release an Internet tablet, based on Linux, instead of Symbian which is one of their dominant phone OS (the other architecture is based on the Nokia OS, a Nokia proprietary RTOS that began its development in the early 90's).
2) PalmOne is to change its name back to Palm. (Confused? Check this out. About two years ago Palm is split into two companies: PalmSource makes the OS and PalmOne has the PDA/phones). What is interesting in that news article is that PalmSource is venturing into Linux.
It seems the open mobile OS is starting to converge a bit, in this case slightly favoring Linux.
1) Nokia today announced they will release an Internet tablet, based on Linux, instead of Symbian which is one of their dominant phone OS (the other architecture is based on the Nokia OS, a Nokia proprietary RTOS that began its development in the early 90's).
2) PalmOne is to change its name back to Palm. (Confused? Check this out. About two years ago Palm is split into two companies: PalmSource makes the OS and PalmOne has the PDA/phones). What is interesting in that news article is that PalmSource is venturing into Linux.
It seems the open mobile OS is starting to converge a bit, in this case slightly favoring Linux.
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