Openmoko Linux is an

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for

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s developed by the

Openmoko Openmoko is a discontinued project to create a family of Open-source model, open source mobile phones, including the hardware specification, the operating system (Openmoko Linux), and actual smartphone development implementation like the Neo 19 ...

project. It is based on the

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, comprising various pieces of

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. The main targets of Openmoko Linux were the Openmoko Neo 1973 and the Neo FreeRunner. Furthermore, there were efforts to port the system to other mobile phones. Openmoko Linux was developed from 2007 to 2009 by Openmoko Inc. The development was discontinued because of financial problems. Afterwards the development of software for the Openmoko phones was taken over by the community and continued in various projects, including SHR, QtMoko and Hackable1.

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Openmoko Linux uses the Linux kernel, GNU libc, the

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plus their own

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built using the EFL toolkit, GTK+ toolkit,

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and the illume window manager (previously Matchbox window manager). The

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build framework and

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package management system, are used to create and maintain software packages. This is a very different approach than that of Android (in which everything except Linux, Webkit, and the Java language inside of Android seems non-standard).It uses Bionic as libc, the

Dalvik virtual machine Dalvik is a discontinued process virtual machine (VM) in the Android operating system that executes applications written for Android. (Dalvik bytecode format is still used as a distribution format, but no longer at runtime in newer Android version ...

for

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, a new

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system, and new proprietary ways of dealing with HID and other peripherals. Google is also accused of not giving their changes of Linux back to the communit
Greg Kroah Hartman on the Linux Kernel
/ref> Applications targeted for Android must be substantially rewritten and are largely not portable. Many existing Linux desktop apps can be easily ported to Openmoko. (However the limited computational power and screen resolution require substantial reworking of existing applications, in order to render them usable in a finger-oriented, small-screen environment.)

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* {{Linux Smartphones Mobile operating systems Embedded Linux Openmoko Free mobile software Linux distributions

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