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===== Announcing project OsmocomBB: Open Source GSM Stack [Posted February 19, 2010 by ris] From: Harald Welte <laforge-AT-gnumonks.org> To: osmocom-announce-AT-lists.osmocom.org Subject: Announcing project OsmocomBB: Open Source GSM Stack Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:02:04 +0100 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Cc: baseband-devel-AT-lists.osmocom.org, openbsc-AT-lists.gnumonks.org Archive-link: Article, Thread Good news, everyone [tm]! I am hereby publicly announcing project OsmocomBB: A Free and Open Source software project to create a Free Software GSM baseband firmware. The baseband chipset is the part of a mobile phone that actuall communicates directly with the GSM network. It typically includes a DSP and a microprocessor running some RTOS, drivers for the baseband chipset, the GSM protocol stack and some kind of user interface. GSM has been deployed first 19 years ago. Despite billions of phones deployed world wide, all of them run a proprietary baseband firmware, consisting of proprietary drivers, RTOS and GSM protocol stack. OsmocomBB has set out to change this. We do not want our phones to be a black box connected 24/7 to a public network. We want to decide what kind of data our phone reveals about us or not. The authors behind the project have already spent the last 15 months implementing an Open Source GSM network side protocol implementation called OpenBSC. In January 2010, they decided to go after the phone side protocol stack - which turned into OsmocomBB. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]
