During a keynote today at Ubuntu Live, an open source conference in Portland, Oregon Mitch Kapor noted that the open source movement has achieved more than most anyone could have expected.
“When software is free and open, it doesn’t matter who you are, how much money you have, or your education or many of the distinctions that are likely barriers to opportunity,” said Kapor. “Access to a computer and access to broadband are the remaining barriers.”
Doug Fisher, Intel’s vice president of its system software division talked about the steps his company is taking to make its various hardware platforms more friendly to open-source development, says Wired’s Ubuntu Live Blog,
Intel’s new mobile project site, Moblin.org, which launched last week, will host community-based development projects for the latest Intel-based devices. In addition to hosting code, documentation, a bug tracker and development tools, Intel also hopes to foster interoperability between the various devices. Intel’s Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are based on Linux.
There’s been quite a bit of buzz about Linux on handhelds, and Pepper Linux in particular. Pepper, an accessible, lightweight Linux distribution, was recently ported to the OLPC platform.
Now Pepper Computing has developed a version of its OS for Intel’s mobile platform. Expect the devices to roll in later this year. Also generating some love here at the show is the release of Ubuntu for Mobile — not too surprising, considering it’s the host’s latest product.
The GNOME Mobile Platform is a subset of the proven, widely used GNOME Platform.
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