Linux phone pioneer acquired (LinuxDevices)

LinuxDevices takes a look at Wind River's acquisition of Korean firm Mizi Research. "Founded in 1999, Mizi was among the first wave of companies attempting to commercialize embedded Linux. From the beginning, the company took an interest in Linux on handsets, as well as PDAs. It began offering GPL-licensed Linux BSPs (board support packages) for Samsung system-on-chip processors targeting smartphones in 2003, and later that year released Mizi Linux 2.0, a full software stack targeting phones and other mobile devices. Samsung first experimented with the stack in 2003, and Mizi collaborated with an unspecified partner in 2004 on a low-cost handset hardware/software reference design."

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