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| DATE | 2005-04-10 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Treo
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Ron Guerin wrote:
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> Billy wrote:
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>> Ron Guerin wrote:
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>>> Billy wrote:
>>>
>>> Many of "us types" wish to run Linux on their handhelds, and there's
>>> been a lot of good news in this area lately, including that Palm is
>>> going to stop developing PalmOS and switch to Linux. At some point
>>> in the near future, "PalmOS" will be just a daemon running on the
>>> phone/PDA. Hopefully it'll be as easy to load Linux software onto
>>> them as it is on the Zaurus.
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>> I haven't heard this. Rumor or real?
>> The PalmOS 6 is a BeOS derivative, I know.. but I haven't heard
>> anything about Linux. That would be something special.
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> http://tighturl.com/1f
> or the original:
> http://mobile.newsforge.com/mobility/04/12/08/151203.shtml?tid=59&tid=2&tid=138&tid=132&tid=14
WOW! I totally missed that announcement.
That's a big deal, and a smart move.
>> PalmOS seems about a decade behind WinCE from the API PoV.
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> I had a WinCE device back in 2000. It was the best thing EVAR, except
> for the fact that it required a $500 SDK if you wanted to make it do
> anything it wasn't shipped from the factory with, and it seemed the path
> of least-resistance there would be to use VB or C, and one is beyond my
> current abilities, and the other too horrible to contemplate.
yucky. Do you know if they offer the SDK for free these days?
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