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Linux and mobile telephony

Linux and mobile telephony

Posted Dec 11, 2002 10:57 UTC (Wed) by jonth (subscriber, #4008)
In reply to: Linux and mobile telephony by eru
Parent article: Linux and mobile telephony

It's true that developments using more sophisticated OSs have happened in multi-processor environments. It's just that I have yet to hear of anyone doing it with Linux as that OS.

And I tend to agree with you that Symbian and M$ have this one sewn up at the moment. Now, if someone did an Open Source implementation of the UMTS/GPRS stack, we'd be in business, but this is highly unlikely. It's way outside the scope of a 'bedroom' project, and it takes so much money to develop it needs a seriously rich company to be able to donate that level of development to the community.


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Linux and mobile telephony

Posted Aug 1, 2003 2:46 UTC (Fri) by wumpus (guest, #13546) [Link]

Well... it could start with an open source implementation of the GSM stack, GPRS and friends can be added later on. It should be possible, before Linux noone ever thought a OS was within the scope of an OSD project, now it is, why wouldn't a GSM stack be?

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