Prakash Advani's Blog

There seems to be a Linux phone boom! First it was Motorola to announce to Linux, then it was E28 a chinese company to follow suit and now Samsung too had released a Linux phone. On a seperate development NTT DoCoMo Japanese leading mobile provider had said they would go the Linux way.

Whats driving these companies towards Linux? There are couple of reasons.

- They don’t have to pay License fees
- Provides them with lots of flexiblity
- Lets face it, Linux is good

Most of the phones choosing to use Linux are for smart phone with PDA, camera, MP3 and other facilities.

Posted by Frederick Noronha:

Linux is not important only from the free point of view. It is powerful and
robust. It is also flexible and gives you the power to modify. This is
important to some; since most commercial software are US-based. “We need
something that can be customised to our taste and requirements,” says
the 28-year-old CEO of a website called FreeOS.com that aims to promote free
operating systems, Prakash Advani.