Feature phones normally run a customized variant of Linux.
This is not true. Nokia feature phones run Symbian OS that uses the Symbian kernel designed for the low power single core microcontrollers that these phones usually have. Java ME is the application layer of Symbian OS.
Actually, no... Anything running Symbian would be in the smart phone segment. Feature phones from Nokia run the proprietary S40 operating system, with J2ME running on top of a native UI. If it is a really simple phone (dumb-phone) it will typically be S30 (again, a proprietary Nokia OS).
Anyway, you are correct that Linux-based feature phones are not the norm. It is still a bit heavy OS to run for low-end phones.
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Feature phones normally run a customized variant of Linux.
This is not true. Nokia feature phones run Symbian OS that uses the Symbian kernel designed for the low power single core microcontrollers that these phones usually have. Java ME is the application layer of Symbian OS.
Actually, no... Anything running Symbian would be in the smart phone segment. Feature phones from Nokia run the proprietary S40 operating system, with J2ME running on top of a native UI. If it is a really simple phone (dumb-phone) it will typically be S30 (again, a proprietary Nokia OS).
Anyway, you are correct that Linux-based feature phones are not the norm. It is still a bit heavy OS to run for low-end phones.
There was a story about this a year ago (though without the sensationalistic title): http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/09/0425237
It can - take a look at http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/projects/nspluginwr apper/ - a wrapper that enables the use of 32-bit plugins on a 64-bit browser.
Works fine with flash on my machine. For gentoo it is just a matter of emerging nspluginwrapper and flash.