http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/04/09/no-hand-out-for-palm-just-yet/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Wed, 22 May 2013 22:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/04/09/no-hand-out-for-palm-just-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-114579 BlackBerryCool » Linux OS on its way from Palm Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:58:54 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/04/09/004061/#comment-114579 [...] Maybe Palm’s head-honcho wasn’t bluffing when he was talking about focusing on improving Palm instead of selling it to the highest bidder. Word from the Boy Genius Report via a helpful-hinter has Palm developing a version of the Palm OS that is based on a Linux Modular monolithic kernel. Details are sparse (what’s new there?), but some information has come to light: – PalmOS 5 devices (currently the latest version) will still be released later this year – Devices based on the Linux kernel should be released by the end of the year. – The OS is separate from the Access Linux Platform, it is Palm’s own homegrown OS. – Palm will not license the OS to other manufacturers – It is highly likely that the new OS will use Opera as its default browser, given the recent agreement between Palm and Opera. [...]

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