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TWiki's hunt for cash fractures its community.....
Novell turns Linux desktop setback into victory.....
Ubuntu Linux 8.10's five best features.....
OpenMoko, of the open source gadget movement, has announced intentions to develop an Android-compatible handset.....
Opera's CEO on the browser market, and open source competition.....
The fateful day has arrived for the first Android-powered phone. This Google-backed open phone will likely be sufficient for a large number of users -- if not in its first incarnation, certainly within a few models and revisions.
But it certainly isn't the only open phone. It isn't the first by any means, and it has another competitor hot on its heels.
Some more pioneering souls might forego the tamer Android for the Neo FreeRunner or the upcoming NeoPwn.
Openmoko's open source NeoFreeRunner Linux-based phone went on sale in the U.S. starting Friday.....
Open source and Amazon's Kindle.....
Will the Nokia Symbian open source OS be any match for LiMo's mobile platform?......
Did Linspire sell to Xandros out of frustration with trying to promote desktop Linux?.....
At $156.6 million, Red Hat's first quarter revenue is up 32 percent year-over-year, and Matt Asay notes that it increased R&D spending by 33 percent.....
Openmoko is shipping its Linux-based, open source Neo Freerunner phone to five newly announced distributors, in Germany, France, and India.....
Wired weighs in on Google's Android OS.....
Coverity's David Maxwell on quality issues in open source software.....
With the growing importance of the mobile web and applications that run on the device that we used to call a cell phone, open source users and developers are facing some fundamental choices. Just as open source software is not the mainstream offering for desktop computers, open source phones are the exception rather than the rule. But if you dig a bit, and you're willing to spend money or time, even your phone can be an open device.
BURLINGAME, Calif. - Can the power of open source be harnessed into the form factor of a cellular phone? That's the question Taiwan-based OpenMoko hopes to answer positively, when it starts to roll out its OpenMoko platform and phones later this year.
