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Linux for PDAs? Cough It Up Already March 17, 2006

So I’m surfing the net and I come across this great big showy press release about a Japanese company acquiring PalmSource, the spinoff company that’s behind the PalmOS operating system for various mobile devices and PDAs. Seems the company is part of a group dedicated to creating a Linux enivronment on mobile devices, as well as a development environment for anyone wanting to writing code for mobile Linux.

But gosh darn it if I could actually find any damn info on where I can get mobile Linux or even when it’ll be released. Pretty damn frustrating, if you ask me. I for one can’t wait for it. As much as I’ve always loved my Palm devices, the thing that bugs me is as it stands, I can’t run more than one application at a time. Why the heck not?

With all the memory you can get on an SD (Secure Digital) or CF (Compact Flash) card for a PalmOS device, you’d think PalmOS should be able to run multiple applications. I’m not saying that it can’t, but if it can, none of the PalmOS apps I’ve got running take advantage of this. So I’m guessing that it can’t.

Anyone know?

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