Linux for mobile devices
As can be learned from the article Linux range of use, Linux kernel-based operating systems are ubiquitously found on diverse hardware platforms. This article, Linux for mobile devices, is about the use of Linux kernel-based operating systems on all sorts of mobile devices, whose primary or only Human interface device (HID) is a touchscreen.
This mainly comprises smartphones and tablet computers, but also some mobile phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs) portable media players that come with a touchscreen separately.
Lists
Operating systems
This is a list of many Linux kernel-based operating systems used on mobile devices. They differ from one another in parts of the middleware or the entire middleware, and in that they employ individual UIs.
- Android (operating system)
- AsteroidOS
- KDE Neon[1]
- Mobian OS
- postmarketOS
- Sailfish OS
- SHR (operating system)
- Tizen
- Ubuntu Touch (discontinued by Canonical, adopted by UBports Community)
- webOS
- LuneOS[2] (based on HP webOS)
- PureOS
- Firefox OS (discontinued)
- Openmoko Linux (discontinued)
- OpenZaurus (discontinued)
- Bada (discontinued)
- Maemo Leste (fork of discontinued Maemo based on Devuan)
- Moblin (discontinued)
- MeeGo (discontinued)
Middlewares
- BusyBox – small footprint alternative to GNU Core Utilities, under GNU GPLv2
- Toybox – BSD licensed alternative to BusyBox
- mer
- Smart Common Input Method
- Maliit
- Intelligent Input Bus
- Uim
- Fcitx
- Halium
UI
- KDE Plasma Workspaces
- Unity
- GPE Palmtop Environment
- OPIE user interface
- Phosh[3]
gollark: <@!332271551481118732> Can I say that v3 is considered canonical right now?
gollark: It's Emu War. Emuwars was a trashy movie based on it made in 2030.
gollark: I didn't actually program emu war, mind you.
gollark: ++delete the deletion of osmarks
gollark: What are the differences between v1 and v2?
References
- https://www.plasma-mobile.org/get/
- "Running Linux on your smartphone: everything you need to know in 2019". TuxPhones - Linux on smartphones. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
- "Phosh". developer.puri.sm. Retrieved 2019-06-09.
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