Now you lost me there? You cannot be talking about Jollla, as GPS tracking with it works perfectly and I use it several times a week, both bicycling and hiking in woods. My longest tracks are over 3h in length, logging coordinates every second and I have never lost points...
I think handaxe was talking about Ubuntu though the description of it being much the same makes no sense. All the main mobile OSs allow background tasks for audio, GPS etc including iOS. At this point it's a slightly bizarre state of affairs where a Linux company is being out-multitasked by even iOS and Windows Phone 7.