Google’s Android kernel will no longer be part of Linux kernel tree. What this means is that updates from Android will not be intergrated into Linux kernel and vice versa. Linux kernel is an open community and the developers are often posting fixes for security, new device drivers and utilities. The decision seems to have come from Linux community. Linux developer blog suggest that problem seems is with Android’s security model, and framebuffer driver infrastructure. This prevents several Android drivers and platform code from merging into the main kernel tree. The blogger also points that ‘no one seems to care about the Android tree’. ......continue reading

TMobile is introducing new Sidekick soon. The new phone is packed with quite a few powerful features and supports 3G. According to Infosyncworld, the web browser will support Flash Lite 3. Sidekick software platform is developed by Danger and from what I’ve known is based on Linux. Danger has a developer commmunity web site where users can download the SDK. ......continue reading

So I have been following Linux configurations available for mobile devices and have blogged about LiMo a while ago. There are several other Mobile Linux configurations available for cellphones including Google Android which is based on Linux. iPhone SDK is also unix based, and OpenMoko is the other open source Linux. There are several other varients offered by Montavista, Greenhills and other OS vendors. ......continue reading