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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Linux on low powered devices.
by Tim on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 21:33 UTC

Or is it the moderately high requirements of Linux (at least 208 Mhz, 32 MB RAM)

My ageing 25 MHz 486 doesn't think so.

while PalmOS/Symbian/WinCE can run on 104 Mhz (or less) in full graphics mode with minimum memory requirements at 8-16 MB?

Perhaps you mean X not linux? There's no reason a company (eg Trolltech) can't develop some other graphical environment that runs on linux.