“When Linus Torvalds takes center stage at LinuxWorld on
Wednesday, he will no longer wear the hat of the impartial shepherd
of the Linux operating system, but that of the creator of a new
Linux distribution, Mobile Linux.”
“Transmeta’s TM3120 Crusoe processor and associated Mobile Linux
distribution, officially unveiled on Jan. 19, are aimed solely at
OEMs building mobile Internet devices. Mobile Linux is a
ROM-based Linux OS for mobile systems without hard disks that
offers unique power management features and a reduction in the
memory footprint.”
“Torvalds, an engineer at Transmeta, denies that the company has
designs on the software side of the business. Transmeta will
release Mobile Linux to the open source community and will not
support end users of Mobile Linux.”