With all the hype surrounding the iPhone, it's time to consider what this little wonder can really do as a replacement for your portable computer.
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The unflappable free software community that opened the iPhone
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The world of free software is full of amazing and even heroic stories (the gcc toolkit for its quality and flexibility, Linux and free desktops for their size and sheer ambition, Samba and Mono for their tenacity at keeping up with confusing quasi-standards) but one of my favorite recent stories is the opening of the iPhone.
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Apple: firmware update likely to make unlocked iPhones "permanently inoperable"
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The title basically says it all. I'm posting this because it shows how people should be using phones that don't contain DRM and proprietary code and don't allow vendor lock-in.
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Closed iPhone opens road for Linux phones
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Linux developers have been dying for a phone of their own ever since Sharp killed the Zaurus Linux-based PDA. Apple's decision to close iPhone to 3rd-party applications gave the green light to Linux phones and mobile devices.
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Portrait of a Linux iPhone-killer wannabe
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In the race to be the first "iPhone killer," the most unlikely but perhaps most intriguing candidate is based on a new Linux platform with the peculiar name OpenMoko.
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Insider Info on the First Fully Open-Source Cell Phone
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A Q&A with OpenMoko on its upcoming Neo 1973, called a hacker's answer to the iPhone. The Neo 1973, the first phone to use the open-source, Linux-based OpenMoko mobile operating system, has techies abuzz in anticipation of its October consumer release.
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Intel aims to speed Linux gadget development
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"The iPhone doesn't run Linux, but Intel has begun work to help improve the operating system for future devices of its ilk."
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As Apple launches its iPhone today, a company attempting to build a similar touchscreen-based phone around an open, user-extensible Linux OS has acknowledged significant delays. OpenMoko now hopes to ship its first "mass market" model in October.
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