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[News] Google's Mobile Linux Receives a Warm Welcome, Pundits Misunderstand

  • Subject: [News] Google's Mobile Linux Receives a Warm Welcome, Pundits Misunderstand
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 09:06:08 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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A Warm Welcome for Google's Android

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| Nearly 200 industry movers recently surveyed said they believe Android-based 
| mobiles won't make even a small dent during 2008 in the smartphone market, 
| which is dominated by the Symbian platform, Windows Mobile, and the 
| BlackBerry. But Android's late arrival on the market doesn't seem to be 
| weighing heavily on many developers.    
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http://www.crm-daily.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11200B0HSHZ4

It has been amazing how many journalists simply didn't understand how it all
works. Interesting notes from the Chumby developer:

24C3

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| I had the fortune this year of being able to attend 24C3, the 24th annual 
| Chaos Computer Congress. The conference was a lot of fun–probably the first 
| time in a long time (at least since chumby started) that I got to sit down 
| and just hack for a couple of days on fun projects…in between going to really 
| interesting and stimulating talks, and enjoying Berlin’s nightclub scene. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Cross-compiling the basic Linux phidgets driver was fairly straightforward; I 
| just had to modify the makefile to explicitly use arm-linux-gcc instead of 
| the default host compiler. I then copied the libphidget21.so onto the chumby 
| root file system–not quite as easy, as it’s a cramfs read only filesystem. 
| Since I didn’t have my full chumby development environment on hand, I grabbed 
| one of the chumby OTA update distribution filesystems, mounted it as a 
| loopback volume, tar copied the contents out, added the library files, and 
| then regenerated the cramfs filesystem. It’s a lot of work if you’re not 
| comfortable with Linux; an easier way to handle this is to just statically 
| link your binaries against libphidget21.a.         
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http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=221

"One person in Helsinki can quickly write the core of a sophisticated operating
system."

                --John Warden, lead attorney at Microsoft


Related:

Introducing the first Android prototype

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| Morgan Gillis, executive director of the LiMo Foundation, an industry group 
| dedicated to creating a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices, says 
| handset makers typically spend $500 million, at a minimum, to launch an 
| operating system. Gillis says few handset makers will be willing to commit to 
| Android until the full platform, including the critical source code, is 
| nailed down tight.     
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2008-01-13-android-google_N.htm


Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco: Linux Is Mobile's Future

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| LinuxInsider met with Capobianco to discuss his view on the role of open 
| source in creating Mobile 2.0 as a voice and data carrier parallel to the 
| Internet. The meeting occurred in the wake of Google's announcement earlier 
| this month that it was negotiating with wireless carriers, handset makers, 
| software developers and hardware providers to use an open source mobile 
| platform, Android.     
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http://www.technewsworld.com/story/60340.html


Google releases Android SDK

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| Google has released an SDK (software development kit) that programmers can 
| use to create cell-phone applications for the company’s Android mobile 
| platform.  
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http://www.macworld.com/article/61005/2007/11/androidsdk.html

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