Sunday, January 22, 2006
State of Linux on the Palm
When you install Linux on an appliance, has no limits what you can get to do with it. We saw wireless router with the Linksys WRT54G, and we expect that to happen the same with the Palm in the future. While that moment arrives, many people are trying on their own to run Linux on the Palm today. In the blog TamsPalm I found a very complete table with the status of implementation of Linux for each Palm model to model. Did you check to prove it?
| | TX | T | T2 | T3 | T5 | E | E2 | C | LD | Zire 72 | UX 50 | Zodiac |
| LCD | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| touch screen | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | yes | no | no | no |
| Boot loader | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes | no | no |
| UNC | no | no | yes | yes | no | -- | no | no | no | -- | no | no |
| USB | no | yes | yes | yes | no | no | no | yes | no | almost | no | no |
| serial | no | no | yes | can | no | -- | no | no | yes | -- | no | no |
| MMC / SD | yes | no | yes | almost | no | no | no | yes | yes, almost HDD | yes | no | no |
| BT | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | -- | no | no | no | no |
| IR | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | no | yes | no | no |
| WiFi | no | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | no | no | -- | no | -- |
| key board | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | almost | -- | -- | no | -- |
| LED | -- | no | no | no | -- | -- | -- | no | no | -- | no | no |
By: Mark Gonzalez Troyes in Palm Analysis
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It's amazing what they can do real hackers in the original sense of the word. Personally, though I like GNU / Linux (and not use it much as it should) I do not think that I dare to do experiments of this kind, especially considering that I only have a palm
But it is interesting, first because at the end of an operating system available for palm will be based on the penguin and Ñú, and second, because you can open the door to very good programs that run on Linux distributions. Would be great to have an open office, Firefox, Thunderbird, ... in our Palm. Although I suppose that this is far from achieved, and depends on many factors ... but dreaming is free, je je.
It is a revolution. Imagine the number of programmers and programs GTK + (the toolkit programs that use Gnome for example) that now with minimal effort can do the same in Palm.
Linux is already being used long ago in Mobile, for example in the recent ImCoSys, although no one will note that use their own graphical interface.