January 2010 Archives

One (mostly) open source mobile OS was not enough for one enterprising user. He has hacked his Nokia N900 to dual boot, into both the Debian-based Maemo (version 5)and the Linux and Java-based Android (version 1.6, "Donut").

Check out the video proof, as in "proof of concept", according to user bdogg64:

An interesting blog post on the prevalent but unacknowledged presence of Linux, in a wide variety of devices, applications and services.

Jay Lyman, of the 451 Group, predicts that 2010 will kick off the era of hidden Linux. That "while we can expect major market gains and new inroads for Linux, the further the open source OS spreads, the less likely we are to really see how far."

He writes:

 

An interesting one from CES - LG is going the Linux route with its LG GW990 smartphone.