Linux Foundation To Host Intel's Moblin Project

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday April 5, 2009 @02:25AM from the degrees-of-openness dept.

gustavopuy writes with news that Intel will be transferring control of Moblin, its Linux-based OS for mobile devices, to the Linux Foundation. Quoting Ars Technica: "We spoke with Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin, who told us that the Linux Foundation offers a vendor-neutral setting for advancing the Moblin project. He believes that such an environment will help stimulate third-party involvement in the process of building the platform and could also encourage broader adoption. ... Zemlin explained that the Linux Foundation's stewardship of the project will empower third-party contributors to expand the platform beyond its Intel-specific roots. He assures me that Intel sees value in making Moblin open to everyone — including companies that are leveraging Linux on competing processors, such as those based on the ARM architecture."

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Re:Now if we just had a mobile device... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2009-04-05 04:31 · Score: 3, Funny

Incidentally, Nokia really, really, really should have succumbed to their most juvenile side, and codenamed their S60 port of python "trouser snake"...