Linux Phone Standards Forum
The Linux Phone Standards Forum ( LiPS ) is a company founded in November 2005 consortium to create an open standard for a unified Linux - implementation for mobile phones as an alternative to Microsoft's Windows CE platform. Other proprietary manufacturer systems are also to be replaced. Currently, Linux platforms can usually only run on the hardware of individual manufacturers that has been adapted for the respective version. Standardization therefore affects both hardware and software products. The standards of the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) should be taken into account.
Founding members include ARM , France Télécom , Orange , Montavista Software , Open-Plug and PalmSource . In November 2006, ZTE , Telecom Italia and Texas Instruments joined.
In December 2007, the first LiPS release was presented with Linux Phone Standards 1.0.
The competing LiMo Foundation (including Motorola , NEC , NTT DoCoMo , Panasonic , Samsung and Vodafone ) wants to create an industry standard that is not only suitable for cell phones, but also for all compact mobile devices. To a large extent, however, this is not an open standard. In June 2008 LiPS and the LiMo Foundation entered into a cooperation. LiPS was completely incorporated into the LiMo Foundation.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ heise.de/open , Linux Phone Standards Forum is growing
- ↑ golem.de , LiPS wants to standardize Linux on cell phones
- ↑ heise.de/open , Die Woche: Linux in your pocket
- ↑ heise.de/newsticker , Working Group for Standards in Linux Telephony
- ↑ Linux Phone Standards 1.0 officially introduced. Archived from the original on February 25, 2008 ; accessed on May 7, 2017 .
- ↑ pro-linux.de