Re: memory, hardware information & palm pre

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Author: Ted Gould
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: memory, hardware information & palm pre
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


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