Ben Combee wrote: > There are some new articles on ALP online today: > > http://www.computingunplugged.com/issues/issue200602/00001724001.html > -- review of what ACCESS has announced
More like it! Thanks, Ben, that's really helpful! The article has some decent information (including a very decent architectural diagram), and IMO does well to sum up the current state of things. I immediately recognized Wind River as being a developer of embedded and real time Linux. They've been around for a while. I haven't been keeping up with them in past years, but as far as I recall, their stuff is pretty mature. Wow, a multitasking, real-time, Linux OS for Palm hardware. I'm feeling giddy. :) It looks like developing for ALP will be a lot like developing for desktop Linux, with more limited display hardware. Plus, there are the (many) additional features of the MAX UI App Framework. For Palm developers who are wondering how to get started with all this, I would suggest: - Find a spare PC (or use VMware) and install a Linux distro. I'm running SuSE 9.3 and 10.0 here. There is a completely unlimited free version of 10.0 available. Very easy to install, great hardware support, and full-featured. - Get a copy of Richard Stevens' Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment. This is a bible for Unix programmers. Also, there is his book Unix Network Programming, Vol. 1: The Sockets Networking API. An alternative is O'Reilly's "UNIX Systems Programming for SVR4". (I have a copy and I like this book.) - Open a shell (terminal) window, and write and compile some simple console-based C programs, using examples in the books. Start reading some GTK+ documentation. I'm going to look for some documentation on the Wind River website, and may be able to comment more later. [Disclaimer: As usual, this is my best guess, which is limited to the amount and quality of documentation I get from Access Palmsource.] I wonder if they are going to include a Samba server? That would make a nice (wireless) replacement for DriveMode! Jay Ts -- Author of Using Samba, 2nd edition Published by O'Reilly Media http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba2/ -- For information on using the PalmSource Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
