Thanks to its stature in the enterprise server arena, Linux has emerged as the OS dark horse in the race to gain market share on cell phones. A small set of vendors is backing open source to challenge ...

Linux on phones is still a pipedream for many, but Sailfish OS makes it a reality. It just needs more robust support.

In a world dominated by iOS and junk-food-inspired Android operating systems, Canonical, developers of Ubuntu, feel there's room for a mobile version of its user-friendly Linux distribution. However, ...

Motorola Inc. is betting big on Linux for its mobile phones, planning to install the OS on 60 percent of its handsets within two years. The long-awaited follow-up to its sleek Razr phone for GSM ...

Flatpak solved the one problem that made Linux app stores unbearable ...

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 Inc. will release its first Linux- and Java-equipped cell phone and personal digital assistant (PDA) later this year, helping usher in a new generation of phones based on the open-source ...