LiMo Foundation
| LiMo Foundation
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| legal form | Alliance / consortium |
| founding | January 2007 |
| Seat | London - Hammersmith , UK |
| management | Morgan Gillis (Executive Director since 2007) |
| Website | limofoundation.org |
The LiMo ( Li nux Mo bile) Foundation is an alliance that was formed by Motorola , NEC , NTT DoCoMo , Panasonic Mobile Communications , Samsung Electronics and Vodafone in January 2007. Since then, several other members (including the Mozilla Foundation ) have joined the alliance. The aim of the not-for-profit organization is u. a. to support the LiMo-Platform, a Linux -based operating system for mobile phones . The LiMo platform is being further developed today under the Tizen operating system .
history
On June 15, 2006, Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone announced the creation of an organization for Linux on mobile devices. In January 2007 this was founded. In August 2007, Aplix, Celunite, LG Electronics, McAfee and Wind River joined as core members, as well as additional members. By mid-2008, Trolltech, Acrodea, ETRI, Huawei, Purple Labs, Infineon Technologies, Kvaleberg AS, Mozilla Corporation, Red Bend Software, Sagem Mobiles, SFR, SK Telecom and Verizon Wireless were added. In 2008 the LiPS Forum and all its members were incorporated into the LiMo Foundation. This increased the number of members to over 50, including membership of Cellon, Esmertec, Freescale, Longcheer, MIZI Research, Movial, PacketVideo (PV), SK Innoace, Telecom Italia, VirtualLogix and ZTE. Both companies hope to gain a larger share of the rapidly growing and competitive mobile communications market. In February 2009 Opera Software ASA joined the LiMo Foundation. The aim is to ensure full compatibility with mobile platforms with the Opera browser that has been developed, to simplify developments and make them marketable more quickly.
At the end of September 2011 it was announced that LiMo will also merge with the MeeGo project. The new project will be called Tizen .
LiMo platform
The LiMo platform is intended to promote a modular, hardware-independent mobile phone operating system, the source code of which is partially open. The Common Code Pool is only accessible free of charge to members who pay five to six-digit amounts. The LiMo platform supports C and C ++ for native development from version R1. With R2 an internet framework is to be introduced to execute programs in HTML, CSS and JavaScript. In addition, multimedia functions, location-based services and improved security are to be implemented. According to the manufacturer, an SDK based on Eclipse should have been available since the 4th quarter of 2008.
| version | date |
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| R1 | March 31, 2008 |
| R2 | June 3, 2009 (specifications) |
| R3 | February 16, 2010 (specifications) |
| R4 | February 14, 2011 (specifications) |
Members
Founding members
- NEC
- NTT DoCoMo
- orange
- Panasonic
- Samsung
- Vodafone
- ( Motorola : Motorola changed its status shortly after it was founded and is now only an "associate member")
Core members
- Access Co.
- Aplix
- Azingo
- LG Electronics
- McAfee
- Purple Labs
- SK Telecom
- Texas Instruments
- Verizon Wireless
- Wind River Systems
Mobile phones
| Manufacturer | Models |
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| Motorola | ROKR E8, ROKR Z6, RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition, RAZR2 V8, MOTO Z6W, MOTO U9, ZINE ZN5, ROKR EM30 |
| ( FOMA devices ) from NEC : | N905i, N905μ, N705i, N705μ |
| ( FOMA devices ) from Panasonic : | P905i, P905iTV, P705i, P705μ |
| Samsung | SGH-i800, H1, M1 |
| Purple Labs | Purple Magic |
See also
- Other open source smartphone operating systems:
- Other interest groups promoting Linux operating systems on smartphones:
- Mobile Linux Initiative (MLI)
- Open Handset Alliance
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2007/10768.html
- ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12682.html
- ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12860.html
- ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2009/13809.html
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Mobilbetriebssystem-Tizen-beerbt-LiMo-und-MeeGo-1350828.html
- ↑ http://www.pro-linux.de/news/2008/12515.html
- ↑ - ( Memento of the original from January 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ ( List of all members of the LiMo ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. ) November 2009
