It's a little more involved on a PC but it's all free, the software you can download, and Linux in similar operating systems generally come with a compiler or you run a simple command to get it.
Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux.
Rubin's team is building custom mobile-phone software atop the freeLinux operating system that will bind the phone tightly to Google's online applications and advertising services, sources say.
