Intel accelerates the development of mobile gadgets for Linux

As you know, the iPhone does not work under Linux, as well as a great many other mobile devices. This is a very sad fact for those who see a picture of the world through the prism of free software. For many years, various companies have been trying to develop and release Internet gadgets working under Linux, but no one succeeds, with rare exceptions (for example, Nokia 770 or N800).

Intel is not going to put up with this state of affairs and intends to intensify efforts to promote Linux as a standard platform for UMPC, smartphones and other gadgets. Yesterday, the microelectronic giant announced the launch of the Mobile and Internet Linux Project site, which brings together all the old and new Intel projects to improve the Linux kernel and other components. Especially for work on "mobile" projects, the company hired more than a dozen programmers.



Among the projects are the improvement of the power supply system, user interfaces, the use of wireless networks, web browsing and chat, and one of the most important tasks is the development of software for mobile devices. Intel hopes that other developers have joined the project in this part, and two allies have already been found: this is Canonical (the developer of the famous Ubuntu distribution) and the Chinese Red Flag Linux.
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One of the key aspects of the Mobile and Internet Linux Project will be the improvement of development tools so that independent programmers can conveniently write code on ordinary PCs and test it there, without copying them into a mobile device or prototype.

via News.com