On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, betty wrote: > > OT > palm pre: > any ideas on if the palm pre will play well with linux like the treo 650 > does? > > It's an ARM OMAP processor but it will probably take a lot of work from the hackndev boys (I know a few of the Linux on Palm/Treo guys) and if they do make it, it will probably be a while and won't have as good support as the native core. :-( Palm in all likelihood will not give developer access to the linux core (all applications will be done using HTML/CSS/JS ala early iPhone applications) at least for the time being, so even simple utilities and linux applications will be at home, on your desktop. -- Thanks and best regards, Ryan Rix TamsPalm - The PalmOS Blog (623)-239-1103 <-- Grand Central, baby! Jasmine Bowden - Class of 2009, Marc Rasmussen - Class of 2008, Erica Sheffey - Class of 2009, Rest in peace.