History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Mobile Linux Santtu Lakkala Presented in Double Vision where drunk February 8, 2010 History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Outline 1 History of Linux The Beginning Distributions Popularization 2 Mobile Linux First platform Hacker platforms Commercial platforms 3 Current contestants Android webOS bada Maemo History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Outline 1 History of Linux The Beginning Distributions Popularization 2 Mobile Linux First platform Hacker platforms Commercial platforms 3 Current contestants Android webOS bada Maemo History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants The Beginning Started by Linus Torvalds in 1991 Started as a terminal emulator for MINIX Evolved into operating system kernel Coupled with GNU tools for full OS Originally for Intel PCs only History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Distributions Installable Linux with GNU tools First emerge in 1992 The “big ones” appear in 1993-4 Slackware, Debian, RedHat History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Popularization GPL Licensed in 1992 “Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did.” Graphic User Interface 1994 Logo – Tuxedo T. Penguin 1996 KDE 1998 GNOME 1999 History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Outline 1 History of Linux The Beginning Distributions Popularization 2 Mobile Linux First platform Hacker platforms Commercial platforms 3 Current contestants Android webOS bada Maemo History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants First platform Qtopia By Norwegian Trolltech Closely related to Qt used in KDE First introduced in 2001 Used in Sharp Zaurus SL-series The first real Linux gadget Renamed to Qt Figure: SL-C1000 Extended in 2008 Discontinued in 2009 History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Hacker OSes OpenZaurus Replacement for official firmware of Zaurus Familiar Linux replacement firmware for HP iPAQ OpenEmbedded Effort to merge OpenZaurus and Familiar Angstr˚ om¨ Joint effort successor of OpenEmbedded Figure: HP iPAQ 3630 Figure: GPE UI History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants MontaVista Linux Used in the first Linux phone, Motorola A760 in 2003 User interface based on Qtopia First mobile Linux platform with Java Used in other Motorola Figure: RAZR2 phones, like RAZR2 in 2007 History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants OpenMoko Goal to produce fully open device Neo 1973 in 2007 FreeRunner in 2008 First using Gnome technologies, then EFL1 and Qt Currently on hold indefinitely Figure: Neo 1973 1Enlightenment Foundation Libraries History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Moblin Founded by Intel in 2007 Targeted at MIDs2 and Netbooks Maybe in phones in the future Based on Gnome technologies 2Mobile Internet Device History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Outline 1 History of Linux The Beginning Distributions Popularization 2 Mobile Linux First platform Hacker platforms Commercial platforms 3 Current contestants Android webOS bada Maemo History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Android Currently the most popular Linux platform Originally by Android Inc, bought by Google Initial release in 2008 Phones flooding to the market Applications development in Java History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants webOS Created by former PDA giant Palm Launched in 2009 with Palm Pre Proprietary software stack by Palm Application development in JavaScript History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants bada Announced by Samsung in 2009 First devices to appear within 5 months Likely using EFL Not much known History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants Maemo Created by Nokia Launched in 2005 with Nokia 770 Originally for Internet usage First extended with Internet calls GSM support with Maemo5 and N900 in 2009 Based on Gnome technologies Software development in C, C++, Python (and others) History of Linux Mobile Linux Current contestants The end Thank you! Any questions? All images from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, except the AndroidTMLogo.