That
other massive international collaboration for a standardized Linux-based mobile platform, the
LiMo Foundation, is still toiling away at building its global empire -- but the good news is that Release 2 is now ready to rumble, albeit
a few weeks behind schedule. The new version -- a collaboration among a slew of Foundation members -- adds enhancements for location-based services, improved security, high-end multimedia, and other miscellany that hope to make LiMo competitive with the best that Android and others have to offer in 2009. Speaking of 2009, LiMo now says that six "major" carriers have committed to launching handsets running the latest version of the platform this year -- NTT DoCoMo, Telefonica, Orange, SK Telecom, Verizon, and Vodafone -- which is a pretty powerful testament to the pull that LiMo has at the moment. Delivering on those commitments, of course, is another matter altogether.
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Phone Scoop]
posted Feb 9th 2009 12:44PM
This will be the year of mainstream Linux.
This will never happen.
Verizon will cripple Linux to death
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Verizon usually does with their Mobile OS's. Just look what they did to their poor Blackberry phones and WinMo phones.
Linux is the best with freedom not monopoly like the other guys.
Linux is a "free" product, hence LiMo is too a "free" (and mostly open source product) but cellphones are not.
The same as Android, is opensource but you can't install a custom version in your cellphone.
Except you need a degree in CS&E to get wireless drivers working in Ubuntu.
The price of being free, I guess.
Hmmm, considering that list of carriers, this thing is gonna be hobbled beyond belief.
LiMo? More like LAMO! Android FTW!!!
But really, Google is awesomer.
Now comes the dawn of OpenSource Handheld Operating systems. Now only if they would make it so that you can freely install another operating system onto your handset like you can with your PC.
This is really exciting for me. I have been a desktop user for a long time, and I have come to rely on the utter stability of Linux. As I came to learn how to use the OS better, I began to really appreciate the elegance in the design. Its so simple, yet so functional. Way to go Linux on bringing it to the mobile environment. I am thinking of going Linux for our server at work, which will then in turn use LiMo stuff for dispatching purposes: http://www.captainlimousines.com