Hacking HTC’s Windows CE phones with Linux — a progress report
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I realize that there is a lack of community projects centered around the mobile device scene within the OSS arena. Yet, as you read below, you can almost understand why that is…
There is a curious lack in the Linux community — the number of community-led Linux distributions for commodity mobile phone hardware is zero. There are PDAs for which you can get a GSM/GPRS SD card; there are mobile phones, such as the Motorola A780, that are based on Linux; and there is even the OpenEZX project, which aims to take Motorola’s original kernel source for the E680 and A780 Linux phones as the basis for an entirely free-software phone distribution. But there just simply aren’t any completed and entirely free Linux distributions, with complete source code, for any commodity mobile phones. [Read the rest]
