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Palm OS To Run On Linux

Posted by timothy on from the funky-upstart-linux-os dept.

mwk88 writes "PalmSource today announced it is acquiring China Mobile Soft, a leading Chinese mobile phone software company, and will offer future versions of Palm OS Cobalt running on Linux. Full disclosure: I am a PalmSource employee -- but also a Slashdot reader, and would like to get some feedback. You can find more detail in this letter to the Linux community." NewsForge (also part of OSTG) has a textified (non-PDF), linked version of the letter.

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  1. Now I will seriously consider Palm.. by brxndxn · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've been wanting to get a PDA but I've been pretty dissappointed with the slow OS that ships with Windows-based PDAs.

    And, Palm OS is a piece of crap. But, with Palm running on linux, I would be willing to bed that some unhappy nerd will fix it for the rest of us and give us something more than tolerable. So, I'm gonna be very optimistic about this.

    I want to be able to play my GBA games on my new pda and watch lectures in high-quality - but the limitations of both of the current OS's seem to stifle that..

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  2. Re:Palm OS X by happyemoticon · · Score: 1, Troll

    KDE and 1 gig of ram to run it smoothly?