Palm to go Linux 253
jetkins writes "The Melbourne Age reports that company officials announced Tuesday that Palm will move to a new Linux-based platform 'to help the company compete better.' The move was announced 'during a meeting with analysts in New York, where they also discussed the company's business strategy and refused to talk about recent rumors of a possible buyout.'"
Great move for them. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sure (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Old News??? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Old News??? (Score:3, Funny)
Because palmos doesn't multi-task. This is why the palm version of the treo can't support a wifi card.
Re:Old News??? (Score:3, Funny)
What I don't get is why they don't use one of the 5 existing palmtop Linux environments, instead of wasting resources building their own from the ground up.
Oh, wait, Palm has lots of ex-80s-Apple people. Never mind.