The Latest on Palm OS for Linux

Submitted by tuxtops on Fri, 05/27/2005 - 18:22

At the PalmSource developer conference this week, many people were hoping for additional details on this upcoming operating system. Although the company did make a demonstration on Wednesday of a few of the functions of Palm OS for Linux, clearly a lot more work needs to be done.

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Anonymous (not verified)

Sun, 05/29/2005 - 15:03

Hey there—I was the one doing the demonstration last week, and, yes, a lot of work remains to be done. The software demonstrated is way pre-alpha, but in spite of that, we showed both the Launcher and the Date Book (the Cobalt versions, simply recompiled—no changes to code whatsoever) as well as the operation of the telephony implementation, which we demonstrated by making a phone call onstage. We have the other PIM apps running as well, but didn't have time to show all of them...