Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 2nd Apr 2005 20:44 UTC
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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The reason why linux requires more memory than PalmOS/Symbian/WinCE, is that linux has more functionality, such as the now common in desktop computers multitasking.
Take PalmOS/Symbian/WinCE and make them multitasking, give them full os functionality like linux has such as multimedia playback/capture, and the memory requirements are the same as linux, if not more.
As far as the framebuffer being slow is concerned, thats just plain wrong, if you use an _accelerated_ frambuffer.