OpenEZX was a project active from 2004 to 2008, which gathered information about the
Linux
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based
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...
EZX phone platform.
It tried to provide a 100% free software stack for those phones, especially a way to avoid any proprietary filesystem and/or device drivers. It also aimed to provide a current (2.6.x) kernel with all required hardware support for the EZX phones.
Supported phones included:
*
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...
mobile telephones, generally based on
MontaVista
MontaVista Software is a company that develops embedded Linux system software, development tools, and related software. Its products are made for other corporations developing embedded systems such as automotive electronics, communications eq ...
Linux, include the
ROKR E2,
ROKR E6,
A780, E680, A910,
A1200
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and others to come.
There is an archive of the historic OpenEZX software git repositories on.
OpenEZX historic archive on github
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See also
* Replicant (operating system)
Replicant is a free and open-source Android (operating system), Android-based operating system that intends to replace all Proprietary software, proprietary Android components with free-software counterparts. It is available for several smartph ...
*Mobilinux
Mobilinux is a discontinued Linux distribution by MontaVista. It was announced on April 25, 2005.
History
In 2005, PalmSource joined MontaVista to collaborate on Mobilinux.
In April 2005, version 4.0 was released. In 2007, version 5.0 was relea ...
References
See also
* Motorola
Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois. It was founded by brothers Paul and Joseph Galvin in 1928 and had been named Motorola since 1947. Many of Motorola's products had been ...
* List of Motorola products
This is a list of Motorola products. Motorola Mobility is an American subsidiary company of Chinese multinational technology company Lenovo that manufactures consumer electronics and telecommunications products.
Computers
Laptops
* ML910
* M ...
* List of mobile phones running Linux
External links
Openmoko: 10 years after mickeys story
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