Most of us have stories about how we have done right by some family member and installed Linux for them in place of that other operating system. I myself have rescued my parental unit from the clutches of Vista.
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Verizon Dials in Linux as Primary OS for Mobile Phones
Verizon has just announced that Linux will be its mobile operating system of choice, and will start delivering Linux based phones in 2009. Kyle Malady, vice president of networks, also states that this does not preclude Verizon from selling phones based on other OS’s, notably the Google Android and Blackberry. A quote from My Malady.
I am a current Verizon customer and have been very pleased with the existing service and Blackberry phone. I can’t wait till 2009 to try out the new Linux-based phone!
Cisco’s $250 Million Routing Platform Based on Linux
Cisco’s new routing platform has the potential to change the how enterprise view their WAN edge and Internet gateways in their network. The ASR 1000 router debuts Cisco’s new IOS XE operating system which uses Linux at it core.
It is designed to have the speed and efficiency of a application specific integrated circuit with the flexibility of a microprocessor.
Virgin Mobile Migrates to LAMP stack for SMS
To meet to the demands of phenomenal growth of mobile phone services Virgin Mobile has adopted to the (LAMP) Linux, Apache,Mysql,PHP stack to modernize their infrastructure. The internally developed solutions are used to process thousands of queries each second. Each text message can generate over a hundred queries and contain more than 500GB of data.
A quote from Joe Morrissey of MYSQL.