Mobile distributions and upstream challenges

Mobile Distributions and Upstream Challenges FOSDEM 2010

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Raise your hand if you have a linux-based mobile phone

Raise your hand if you have a linux-based mobile phone Raise your hand if you had a linux-based mobile phone in February 2009

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Raise your hand if you have a linux-based mobile phone Raise your hand if you had a linux-based mobile phone in February 2009 2008 ... 2007 ... 2006 ...

Embdebian Maemo Moblin Ubuntu Netbook Remix Android ChromeOS LiMo OpenMoko

Building a mobile distro

Upstream challenges Where is the latest release? Where is the source? What is the license?

Reference hardware Chicken and egg: hardware not available until the software platform is built. Software platform not built until the hardware is available ... How to get the hardware to the right people? Availability of base boards e.g. BeagleBoard

Package management .deb vs. .rpm vs. .tar.gz vs. ....

Cross compilation + hosting Scratchbox QEMU, Xen, KVM, Virtualbox

Where to from here?

Mobile distributions and upstream challenges

by Andrew Savory on Jun 14, 2010

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