Support and performance are better, but still trail behind Android.

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 gained another friend in the mobile phone market last week, as Qualcomm said it would support the open source operating system in its cell phone chipsets. Linux is gaining in popularity as a ...

A Linux phone is one that comes with the same operating system and, for the most part, same software that's available for the ...

Judging from comments made at last week’s 3GSM World Congress (see below for Linux-related 3GSM stories), the future of Linux and other open source operating systems as a core cell phone platform are ...

Giving old phones new life.

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, ...