Mobile Linux to become dominant mobile OS?

Link: FEATURE: Mobile Linux: Why it will become the dominant mobile OS – FierceWireless

Mobile Linux will become the dominant OS on mobile phones within five years. Here’s why.

A heck of a lot more detail on this by J Jerry Purdy on Fierce Wireless (above link).

I was actually just thinking about this issue after reading Engadget Mobile’s post about the new ROKR E2 which is apparently sporting a Linux OS. Fancy. What’s more, it appears to work.

I’m all for Linux. Ever since we stuck a huge discussion board on a Linux server and watched the OS do a slight shrug of its shoulders with a load average of nothing, whilst the Windows OS server we’d just transferred from (same spec) was knocking away on 100% utilisation, I have admired the beast that is Linux.

I can well believe Mobile Linux could become the dominant mobile OS. In fact I thoroughly approve of the concept. A proper, lightweight, extremely efficient architecture. That’s what we need. Don’t get me started on Windows Mobile 5.0.

It’d start to get exciting if groups of folk got together to make RedHat Mobile style distributions. So you could buy a handset and stick on a different OS…. that would be wicked!