NewsForge: Linux Makes Inroads on Handhelds and Smartphones

“It was a perfect union envisioned years ago. Handheld devices,
such as cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), were
gaining more processing power and needed an operating system that
could support sophisticated functions. Linux has become a highly
portable operating system, one able to run on the largest to the
smallest microprocessors. Despite the symmetry, the tie has been
slow to take shape, and only recently have the two moved closer to
one another.

“The design of handheld devices has been changing, and the
dividing lines between cell phones and PDAs have been
disappearing.

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