[volunteers] a speaker for 3/3

Luke S Crawford lsc at prgmr.com
Thu Feb 25 09:35:49 PST 2010


Ok, so here is a blurb: 

Mobile operating systems based on Linux range from full
implementations of GNU/Linux like Intel/Nokia's newly announced MeeGo
collaboration to platforms like Palm's webOS and the Google/Open
Handset Alliance's Android, which contain little which is familiar to
Linux users beyond the kernel. In addition, Nokia has open-sourced
Symbian, which is not based on Linux at all. How "open" and "free" are
these operating systems and what challenges and opportunities do they
present to developers and users? Android is winning the battle for
market share but does not have familiar facilities like X11 or even
most of libc. In response, the Open Android Alliance has initiated the
Replicant Project whose purpose is to create a GPL'ed operating system
for the HTC G1 Dream phone.


we can snarf the bio and title from the PenLUG talk.  

http://www.penlug.org/twiki/bin/view/Home/MeetingAgenda20100225




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