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PalmSource Talks About PalmOS 6.0

Posted by timothy on from the bits-n-whistles dept.

stevejsmith writes "The Register has released an article regarding PalmSource speaking about their next OS, PalmOS 6.0. The Register says, 'Version 6.0 will be as dramatic a change for the platform as OS X was for Apple, or NT was for Microsoft...', that it will actually include some source code of BeOS, and that will support Microsoft's .NET platform, among other things."

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  1. Re:Swappable... by Phouk · · Score: 4, Informative

    TealScript is a hack that already does what you want, have a look at http://www.tealpoint.com/software.htm

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  2. no be source by millette · · Score: 3, Informative
    Steve Sakoman, the team's former leader at Be Inc, and now PalmSource's "chief products officer" has denied that Be code would be incorporated into the new OS. More likely, we suspect, the new OS will inherit some algorithms and architecture from BeOS.
    See, it says right there, _no_ be code in there. But who reads the articles, right?
    1. Re:no be source by be-fan · · Score: 3, Informative

      This article appeared in The Register, and another guy at Palm said that there *was* BeOS code in there. So its a matter of debate.

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  3. Re:Swappable... by MBoffin · · Score: 3, Informative

    You should check out NewPen. It's an app that turns your screen area into the graffiti pad. That in itself is not so useful. What is useful is that it actually traces behind your stylus so you can see what you are writing. It also draws the big dot where you started, so you can see the flow. My graffiti handwriting improved 10x just from this app alone, mainly because I can actually see what I'm writing.

    I thought this would be a tough app to live with, but it was thought out well. Go ahead and try it to see what I mean.

    The other option is to get a Sony Clie that has the software-drawn graffiti area. Those models feature the draw-behind by default. Very smart, but then again, Sony has always made cool stuff cooler.