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For the project that includes both hardware and software development, see Openmoko.
Openmoko Linux
DeveloperThe Openmoko Team
OS familyLinux distribution
Source modelOpen source
Marketing targetSmartphones
Kernel typeLinux kernel
Default
user interface		Graphical user interface
LicenseGNU General Public License
Official websitehttp://www.openmoko.org/

Openmoko Linux is an operating system for smartphones developed by FIC. It is based on the Ångström distribution, comprising various pieces of free software.[1]

Unlike most other mobile phone platforms, the phones on which Openmoko Linux runs are designed to provide end users with the ability to modify the operating system and software stack. The platform is also supported by other mobile phones.[2]

Openmoko Linux is part of the Openmoko project to create a family of completely open source mobile phones.[3]

There are also some derivates of Openmoko main distribution SHR and Fat and Dirty Openmoko(FDOM).

Components

Openmoko Linux uses the Linux kernel, GNU libc, the X.Org server plus their own graphical user environment built using the EFL toolkit, GTK+ toolkit, Qt toolkit and the illume window manager (previously Matchbox window manager) .[4] The OpenEmbedded build framework and a modified version of ipkg package system, called Opkg, are used to create and maintain software packages.

This is a very different approach than that of Android. As everything except Linux, Webkit, and the Java language inside of Android seems non-standard[5]--></ref> applications targeted for Android must be substantially rewritten and are largely unportable. Many existing Linux desktop apps can be easily ported to Openmoko. (however one must take into consideration the limited power and different user interface considerations)

References

  1. ^ [openmoko-announce] Free Your Phone
  2. ^ OpenMoko supported phones
  3. ^ openmoko.com
  4. ^ "List of software used by OpenMoko".
  5. ^ It uses Bionic as libc, the Dalvik virtual machine for Java, a new frame buffer system, and new proprietary ways of dealing with HID and other peripherals. Google is also accused of not giving their changes of Linux back to the community http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SED6sewRw Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
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