April 20th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Platforms: NetBSD | No Comments »
Just when you thought that the market for mobile operating systems was being narrowed down, Danger announces that it will install the open source NetBSD OS on its Sidekick devices.
This is a strange move for the company that is owned by Microsoft. Previous models of the SideKick used Danger’s own Java based OS. The company did announce that it would shift to a different OS after the Redmond giant acquired it. The company does confirm that NetBSD is not the switch they talked about back then, which means that we can still expect Windows Mobile based sidekicks.