Star Mini-Editorial: The Missed Opportunity of Linux
Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
Linux The future is mobile. That much we know for sure. But it seems that the operating system world in this market is being rapidly taken over by --again-- Microsoft. The new smart phones are are using WinCE, Symbian or Palm. Linux has barely 1% of this new, smartphone market.
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RE: Unix in a phone ??
by Jon on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:56 UTC

Why not?
"Is it a good idea to put a Unix on a desktop?"
Yes, Apple did it. Same goes for embedded systems. QNX is unix-like too, just like Linux, and it works just fine. The user will never see a command line anyway.