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When it comes to portable devices, it seems like Linux is everywhere.

A Gartner Group study reports that Embedded Linux powered 14 percent of smart phones shipped worldwide in the first quarter of 2005. This is an incredible 412 percent from only one year earlier. During the same period, only 4.5 percent of smart phones used Windows Mobile. The study also showed that smart phones are the fastest growing portion of the mobile market.

It seems anywhere that an operating system or user interface is not automatically expected to be Windows, Linux and Open Source Software dominate. I’m sure that alot of this has to do with the lack of restrictive licensing and cost, but the stability and availability of source code must also play a big part in the decision to go with Linux.

Technorati Tags: Linux, Open Source, Windows, Mobile, Cellular

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