MontaVista's Mobilinux 5.0 includes improved security, better power management, support for various types of connectivity, and faster startup times MontaVista Software planned to announce on Wednesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft’s mobile chief dressed down Linux phones at CES and now the Linux Foundation is firing back. What’s at stake? Control of the future smartphone market. Microsoft mobile chief Robbie Bach may ...

CORRECTION: The fourth paragraph of this story has been changed to clarify when the software first became available. A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM ...

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, ...

Can a long-obsolete Linux phone from 2009 be of use in 2025? [Yaky] has a Nokia N900, and is giving it a go. Back in the 2000s, Nokia owned the mobile phone space. They had a smartphone OS, even if ...