Hardware Companies Team Up To Fight Mobile Linux Fragmentation

Nunavut writes with news that a number of hardware companies have banded together to battle the fragmentation of the mobile Linux market. ARM, Freescale Semiconductor, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments are forming Linaro, a nonprofit organization that plans to focus on "low level software around the Linux kernel that touches the silicon, key pieces of middleware that enable new markets and tools that help the developer write and debug code." "Linaro's chief goal is to reduce the time that it takes to bring a new ARM-powered product to market with Linux. This effort is largely neutral with respect to what software environment and components individual vendors choose to run in user space. Linaro will not compete with existing platforms such as MeeGo and Android. Instead, it will attempt to improve the shared underlying software components that allow those platforms and others to run on ARM SoCs. In principle, this could actually reduce fragmentation at the lower levels of the Linux stack."pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flinux.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F06%2F05%2F1327228%2FHardware-Companies-Team-Up-To-Fight-Mobile-Linux-Fragmentation" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Hardware+Companies+Team+Up+To+Fight+Mo bile+Linux+Fragmentation%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F d9DXNF" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/06/05/1327228/Hardware-Companies-Team-Up-To-Fight-Mobile-Linux-Fragmentation?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CFgxs58sYmTzhHm4Yt6VYoFfwEU/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CFgxs58sYmTzhHm4Yt6VYoFfwEU/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CFgxs58sYmTzhHm4Yt6VYoFfwEU/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/CFgxs58sYmTzhHm4Yt6VYoFfwEU/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/hkgkGMQMRsU" height="1" width="1"/

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