On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 19:41 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 3:59 PM, betty <nicepenguin@webcanine.com>
> 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.

I think she's asking whether it'll sync with Linux.  The real answer
there is that no one really knows, they haven't said.  I certainly hope
so.  I don't see why they'd break that, but I'd wait for some reviews to
be sure.

		--Ted