Palm OS on Linux

[cbbrowne-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org]

> Hi,
> 
> Just wondered if anyone here read this info or had any comments on this...
> 
> Below is a link of an open letter from PalmSource to the Linux community:
> 
> http://palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=7383
> 
> Sounds very interesting, especially for Palm and Linux users... but I
> guess time will tell. :-)

You're assuming it is a matter of particular relevance.

I don't.

They are _not_ planning to "free" the layers of PalmOS that sit above
the OS kernel, namely the GUI and storage services.  As a result, the
PalmOS system that falls out of that will be no more (or less)
meaningfully integratable with other Linux-based systems than it is now.

In effect, PalmSource will be creating their own software layer that
will replace everything from init on up.  As a result, while, at the
lowest level, it may be Linux, there won't be init, there won't be
GLIBC, and there won't be any number of other such things that "Linux
application" expect to have around.

It'll be "Linux," but only in that particularly strict sense that
includes only the kernel released by Linus Torvalds, and which pointedly
does NOT include the other stuff like GLIBC, GNU utilities, and such
that are NOT "Linux."
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