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they are doing multiple things. Part of it is a feature phone. That is where the phone is 100% closed to the user. you use their UI and the carrier apps. Nothing gets installed.
the other is to put the Palm UI and API on Linux. I am sure someone will figure out a way to shell out in a limited fashion, but byband large, it will be a Palm OS device, just on a Linux kernel. Just like there is very little you can do on a PPC to access the CE UI and other APIs that aren't exposed, you won't be able to do it on a Linux powered Palm.
Five years ago I said Palm would have a HUGE problem turning the Palm API on the Kadak kernel into a real 32 bit multitasking OS.
Now, they still haven't done it and the whole OS5/OS6 fiasco was a false start. So, they start over with a real OS.
They had to use an established OS and buy a company that already knew how to use that OS to get started. It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
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