On 8/1/07, David A. Desrosiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 00:28 +0530, srikanth a.k. wrote:
> > Palm is moving away from PalmOS in their future devices. Is plucker > > going to be maintained even then? Is there a possibility of porting > > plucker to another platform (say symbian)? > > Palm isn't moving to Symbian, so that's not a danger. Palm is moving > their backend to a Linux-based kernel environment, over their present > environment, and that actually helps development efforts, not hampers > them. I have to wonder if they really are. Palm getting a perpetual license to Garnet from Access Palmsource indicates they see a place for it in the future, and the only device thus far with Palm's Linux version under the hood is the rather underwhelming Foleo. I'd *like* to see Palm move to an embedded Linux kernel with a Garnet based compatibility layer. In fact, that's what Access Palmsource's ALP was supposed to be, but with Cobalt rather than Garnet on top. I note Palm passed on it in favor of a home grown solution. No surprise, as little of Cobalt seems to survive in it, and compatibility with existing apps is anyone's guess. I was also amused at Palm's pious pronouncements in their recent Investor Day ceremonies that they would not license their embedded Linux solution to others. That would only be significant if anyone *wanted* to license it, and I haven't heard of any interest. > David A. Desrosiers ______ Dennis _______________________________________________ Public archival of this list without permission is prohibited. http://lists.plkr.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
