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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...They will focus now exclusively on getting a PalmOS out the door based on Linux...
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Will this be a Linux OS running a GUI front end like Kde or Gnome or will they be building their own distro (called Palux :? )? If they'll use some distro of Linux and add their own twist to Kde or Gnome or even if they come out with their own windowing system they might have a chance.
There really aren't many vendors in the Linux mobile world so they might be able to produce something to replace the Palm OS that would be usable with the end user in mind and they would not have screw around with building an OS. I think it would be wrong for them to try and come up with their own distro (such as Suse, RedHat, Debian etc.). They should rather use a running distro and supply their own twist to it
I haven't seen anything that would make me switch away from a PPC since the apps and community are great but I would hack around with one if not too expensive.
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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
...I would like to see how much money PalmSource wasted from 2002 or perhaps as early as 2001 as they started development on Cobalt, including the acquisition of the BeOS engineering team...
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If it worked then we would have said that look at all the money they spent but they were able to pull it off in the end (MS spends huge piles of cash each year on their R&D). Anyway sooner or later the reason why they're canning Cobalt will surface but for my 2 cents they must have blown it with a poor design. When they came out with the betas something was probably not working correctly which might have caused fears about a big rewrite for portions or even all of it. Or that Cobalt was already behind the times and outdated. But what ever the reason is it seems to smell like the same foul oder as the Denver International Aiport baggage system smelled like when the canned that project.
Maybe they'll start selling pencil and paper in a Rinoskin leather case and call it the Pad OS 8)
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