Oh well, that's somewhat easier to answer: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090111-of-clouds-palms-webos-and-cutting-the-cord.html Short answer: no. Everything on the desktop will probably be accessed via browser, with no software to install. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:38 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 19:41 -0700, Ryan Rix wrote: > > 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. > > 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 > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- 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.