Judging from comments made at last week’s 3GSM World Congress (see below for Linux-related 3GSM stories), the future of Linux and other open source operating systems as a core cell phone platform are ...

Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to challenge ...

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 ...

The Linux operating system has made the jump from computer servers to handheld computers, digital video recorders and wristwatches, and it soon may find a home inside your cellular phone. NEC Corp.

Motorola Inc. is developing all its advanced phone features on Linux first, leading a charge that will accelerate with this week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Although it will continue to make ...

According to the Wall Street Journal, Canonical is claiming that its new Ubuntu OS will be with developers by late February—ready for phones to launch in “two geographically large markets” this ...

In a world dominated by iOS and junk-food-inspired Android operating systems, Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, feel there's room for a mobile version of its user-friendly Linux distribution. However, ...

Motorola Inc. will release its first Linux- and Java-equipped cell phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) later this year, helping usher in a new generation of phones based on the open-source ...

Ubuntu on a phone offers no fucking applications, which trumps handily the admirable lack of Java cruft and any other theoretical advantage that you may want to imagine for Ubuntu. It also offers no ...

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 ...

Ubuntu Touch is mobile version of the popular Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution that’s optimized for phones, tablets, and other small touchscreen devices. Like many mobile Linux distros, it also allows ...

I expect these phones will be more popular in lower income Countries then the US. Even grade school kids in the US want iPhones and Samsung Galaxy's. I have never been a fan of Ubuntu since they began ...