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Palm to go Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the will-change-precisely-nothing dept.

jetkins writes "The Melbourne Age reports that company officials announced Tuesday that Palm will move to a new Linux-based platform 'to help the company compete better.' The move was announced 'during a meeting with analysts in New York, where they also discussed the company's business strategy and refused to talk about recent rumors of a possible buyout.'"

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  1. So Palm own... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    both PalmOS and BeOS, and they decide to use Linux...

  2. Re:Are we going to be able to see the source code? by kestasjk · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That is the price Palm pays for using Free software. That's the price they pay for using GPL'd software. OpenBSD runs on the Zaurus, and even though NetBSD is no longer more portable than Linux Palm could certainly go with a BSD instead of Linux if they wanted to keep their IP to themselves.
    However they probably decided using Linux would create a buzz, and they may be right; I can't remember the last time I heard Palm mentioned in news.
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  3. Re:Old News??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They're switching to lunix to help compete better? They must be pretty desperate. That sounds to me a lot like switching to a nigger to not steal a watermelon; It just doesn't work.

  4. Re:Handhelds and PDF? by drinkypoo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I have never owned a handheld or even touched one, but would like to know whether a basic handled to be used to read PDF documents downloaded from the internet is reasonable.

    Get a Windows Mobile PDA with WiFi and support for modern SD cards, and a VGA-resolution display, and you will have no problems. The QVGA (240x320) screen is pretty bad, although IIRC Adobe Reader for mobile devices has cleartype. It's one of the largest apps on my iPaq.

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