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LinuxDevices: Hacking HTC’s Windows CE Phones with Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 2, 2006

“There is a curious lack in the Linux community–the number of
community-led Linux distributions for commodity mobile phone
hardware is zero. There are PDAs for which you can get a GSM/GPRS
SD card; there are mobile phones, such as the Motorola A780, that
are based on Linux; and there is even the OpenEZX project, which
aims to take Motorola’s original kernel source for the E680 and
A780 Linux phones as the basis for an entirely free-software phone
distribution. But there just simply aren’t any completed and
entirely free Linux distributions, with complete source code, for
any commodity mobile phones…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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