Judging from comments made at last week’s 3GSM World Congress (see below for Linux-related 3GSM stories), the future of Linux and other open source operating systems as a core cell phone platform are ...

Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to challenge ...

The tech giant will begin selling its first cell phone based on Linux this year and says most models will follow suit--a sign of the growing popularity of the operating system. Stephen Shankland ...

Linux gained another friend in the mobile phone market last week, as Qualcomm said it would support the open source operating system in its cell phone chipsets. Linux is gaining in popularity as a ...

Japanese cell phone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cell phones, a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry. DoCoMo ...

Motorola Inc. is developing all its advanced phone features on Linux first, leading a charge that will accelerate with this week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Although it will continue to make ...

The Ubuntu Edge smartphone campaign never reached its lofty $32m goal , but the more than $12m in pledges it received was record-breaking—and Canonical hasn’t given up. Ubuntu Touch for phones just ...

postmarketOS, the Linux distribution for phones and tablets, just released a new major update. It's still not a full-fledged replacement for Android or iOS, but now it has more supported hardware, an ...

BARCELONA (Reuters) - NEC and Panasonic will unveil on Monday nine new cell phone models running the open-source LiMo operating system, wireless Linux foundation LiMo said at the Mobile World Congress ...

When Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth announced today that the team behind the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system would be dropping the Unity desktop environment and going back to GNOME starting ...

Japanese cell phone service provider NTT DoCoMo is urging its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cell phones, a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry. DoCoMo ...