Companies Hope to Standardize Linux for Mobile Phones

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5:59 am on November 15, 2005 | Category: Mobile Devices

PalmSource and Orange, along with eight other companies, are currently collaborating on a project to standardize the open source Linux operating system to run on a variety of different mobile phones.

The Linux Phone Standards Forum has the ultimate goal of turning Linux into a viable alternative to the popular Microsoft and Symbian mobile operating systems. They want to set a standard profile for low-end cell phones by the end of next March, and do the same for higher level models by 2007.

The project will also provide APIs to programmers who wish to make applications that are compatible with the new operating system.

Much of this work will be done to compliment and cooperate with the Mobile Linux Initiative, which was founded by Open Source Development Labs, and encourages the use of Linux on mobile devices.

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