The Open Source Development Labs, an industry consortium devoted to improving Linux, is launching an initiative to bring the open-source operating system to mobile phones. The Mobile Linux Initiative is intended to improve Linux for mobile devices and to spur development of apps, outline requirements for different cell phone uses and host related open-source development projects.
Among the 20 OSDL member companies involved are chipmaker Intel and embedded operating system companies MontaVista Software, Wind River Systems and PalmSource. The group’s in-person meeting will be Monday in Beijing.
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