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[News] Why Linux is Becoming a Dominant Mobile Operating System

  • Subject: [News] Why Linux is Becoming a Dominant Mobile Operating System
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 12:53:23 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
How Linux became a mobile phone OS

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| Along the way, important performance milestones were realized. Boot-up time 
| dropped to 10 seconds -- about half that of Symbian and Windows 
| Mobile. "Dynamic power management" provided a standardized way for userspace 
| applications to power down unused peripherals and interfaces. And, Memory 
| Type Allocation empowered programmers to dictate exactly where specific 
| programs would be stored, for example allocating frequently accessed code on 
| the fastest available memory device(s).      
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9959043369.html


Related:

Linux expected to be leading Smartphone OS market by 2010

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| I just came across this research by Diffusion Group, which found
| that Linux is set to become the leading Smartphone OS by 2010.
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http://irfanhabib.wordpress.com/2006/12/10/linux-to-take-over-smartphone-os-market-by-2010/

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