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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:
> Billy wrote:
>
>> Michael L. Richardson wrote:
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>>> Anyone know if the treo 650 runs on GNU/Linux?
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>>
>> You are asking one of three questions. You literally
>> asked question #1, but I somehow doubt that's what you meant...
>
>
> 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.
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.
PalmOS seems about a decade behind WinCE from the API PoV.
Single process, single thread, even a single event loop?
No filesystem!!!! Just databases in a flat space. Yikes!
There's VFS, but it's hard to use and doesn't apply to RAM.
They deserve all of the death they get... I really hope they
have something up their sleeve, because the devices are pretty
nice... HOWEVER! The drivers for add-ons typically suck
worse than even the Windows equivalents.
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