Palm to go Linux

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.'"

Comments

Great move for them.

[davidmillions.com]

It is probably a good move for them because: 1. Lower the cost as they don't have to spend as much in development (eventually) for their own OS. 2. They are in a niche now since Linux has a great following 3. Did I say we are all Linux lovers?

Re:Sure

[Anonymous Coward]

Thanks. I have a question though. I have never used a google or even seen one, but would like to know whether a search tool to be used to look for information downloaded from the internet is reasonable. I am concerned about fonts, response time, usability and durability.

Currently, I have documents in excess of 200MB abd would like to search for them while on the internet. Could a slashdotter help me out thanks. If one can go ahead and recommend search engine, thay would even be great.

Re:Old News???

[Anonymous Coward]

..they keep pulling out this idea of a Linux handheld, then sticking it back in the box. Pull it out, put it back in.

Sounds like they're just screwing with you.

Re:Old News???

[walt-sjc]

Why don't they just go get their rights back from ACCESS so they use the bloody PALM OS?!?

Because palmos doesn't multi-task. This is why the palm version of the treo can't support a wifi card.

Re:Old News???

[metamatic]

What I don't get is why Palm Hardware never used the BeOS-based Palm Software OS.

What I don't get is why they don't use one of the 5 existing palmtop Linux environments, instead of wasting resources building their own from the ground up.

Oh, wait, Palm has lots of ex-80s-Apple people. Never mind.