The upcoming Ubuntu phones will be available through bq, Meizu, and Ubuntu.com. In the meantime, they’ll be on display at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.

Now MontaVista, a Linux embedded-kernel provider, has joined the Linux cell phone club, inking an agreement in late September with middleware software company Openwave Systems to port Openwave ...

In smart phones, IDC's Slawsby believes Linux won't be a mainstream technology, but Motorola's embrace of Linux is giving the operating system a boost. "Linux-Java has been pushed by no-name ...

Linux already has a significant presence in the mobile device market, such as PDAs, smart phones and on basic entry-level phones from vendors like Motorola.

It’s coming on real phones, too, with the first phone with Ubuntu Touch shipping this December. As the Oppo N1 was to CyanogenMod, the Meizu MX4 will be to Ubuntu.

Currently, best estimates say that under 1 percent of all the cell phones sold last year, something like 120 million, had either Symbian, Microsoft, Palm or a Linux operating system.

Cell phones are a new foray for the Linux operating system, which has found its initial stronghold inside servers, powerful networked computers. Companies including MontaVista Software, TimeSys ...

Japanese cell phone service provider NTT DoCoMo urges its handset suppliers to build Linux-based cell phones, a milestone for the operating system's acceptance by the wireless industry.

But it can be difficult to make sure Linux and higher-level software works well with the wide variety of components used in cell phones, said Peder Ulander, MontaVista's new vice president of ...