Finally a Big-Name Backer for Linux

The big player is Google, and it's using Linux in a big way...

"The problem with Linux is that the backers of Linux distributions tend to be small little companies or at least not really famous ones. Funny names like Red Hat, Mandrake and Ubuntu don't help, either, not to mention "difficult to understand" business and profit models.

"Now Google has thrown its full weight behind Linux doing the difficult stuff, squeezing Linux into the phone. And doing difficult stuff like Wi-Fi, touchscreen, 3G, syncing, small screen render browser, SMS handling, power savings, small footprint, tight memory usage, small device control paradigms, etc. Google is a big name, and it's doing the really difficult stuff..." [Read more...]