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Mobilinux is a discontinued Linux distribution by MontaVista. It was announced on April 25, 2005.

History

In 2005, PalmSource joined MontaVista to collaborate on Mobilinux.

In April 2005, version 4.0 was released. In 2007, version 5.0 was released.

Usage

Around 35 million devices have run on Mobilinux, mainly in Asian markets. LWN.net argued that because it was controlled by a single company and targeted mobile operators, it did not generated a large developer community. It has been used on smartphones and NAS devices. The Motorola used Mobilinux in their MotoMagx OS, for example Motorola ROKR.

Hardware support

It had support for the Freescale's i.MX31 chipset.

See also

• OpenEZX

References

1. Ilyas, Mohammad (2006). Smartphones. Syed Ahson. Chicago, Ill.: IEC. pp. 113–117. ISBN 978-1-931695-50-3. OCLC 65340949.
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3. Pilato, Fabrizio. "MontaVista's Mobilinux 4.0 for mobile and wireless devices | Mobile Magazine". Retrieved 2021-05-18.
4. Gohring, Nancy (2007-09-26). "MontaVista releases new Linux-based mobile phone OS". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
5. "Symbian to be another open mobile platform [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
6. Webwereld, Redactie. "6 geflopte mobiele besturingssystemen". Webwereld. Retrieved 2021-05-18.
7. Hochmuth, Phil (2006-11-27). "Linux on Zune soon?". Network World. Retrieved 2021-05-18.

• Embedded Linux distributions
• Mobile Linux
• Linux distributions