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 <
ted@gould.cx> wrote:
> 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
>
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