Motorola Inc. is developing all its advanced phone features on Linux first, leading a charge that will accelerate with this week’s LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. Although it will continue to make ...

Motorola and PalmSource are among the companies that lined up behind a new initiative Monday that aims to promote the use of the Linux operating system on cell phones. The Mobile Linux Initiative was ...

The latest postmarketOS 25.12 release now uses Alpine Linux 3.23 as its foundation, and switches to version 3 of the Alpine ...

Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it ...

Microsoft’s mobile chief dressed down Linux phones at CES and now the Linux Foundation is firing back. What’s at stake? Control of the future smartphone market. Microsoft mobile chief Robbie Bach may ...

The big picture: Apple has spent years trying to steer PC software developers from x86 to Arm, and Qualcomm recently joined the effort. Meanwhile, recent Linux software developments have made ...

CORRECTION: The fourth paragraph of this story has been changed to clarify when the software first became available. A la Mobile Inc. is hoping to help fuel the supply of converged Wi-Fi and GSM ...

Plasma Mobile is a user interface for mobile Linux distributions that includes a mix of features borrowed from the KDE Plasma desktop environment and mixes in some mobile-specific components designed ...

Palm is apparently shipping out mobile phones with Linux on them sometime this year. Rumor has it that they’ll be using Wind River Linux to power the devices—that’s the same company that makes the OS ...

Motorola and PalmSource are among the companies that lined up behind a new initiative Monday that aims to promote the use of the Linux operating system on cell phones. The Mobile Linux Initiative was ...