{"id":732,"date":"2008-12-20T19:11:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T18:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=732"},"modified":"2008-12-21T00:22:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T23:22:38","slug":"future-of-linux-on-the-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=732","title":{"rendered":"Future of Linux on the Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having read this article about how to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palminfocenter.com\/news\/7204\/dual-boot-linux-on-a-palm-tx\/\"> Dual Boot Linux on a Palm TX<\/a>. I then downloaded the linux distribution described in the demonstration from the <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.eyebeam.org\/projects\/reware\/wiki\/Releases\"> Reware Project<\/a>  And loaded it on a spare 2GB SD card as outlined. IT works as described, and it didn&#8217;t do any harm to my normal Palm OS installation. After trying the music app from this project and drilling down through the filesystem to find a complete Linux distro, I downloaded another system called Opie from here <a href=\"http:\/\/atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz\/~miska\/\">http:\/\/atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz\/~miska\/<\/a> and have now been throughly impressed with Linux running on my Palm. <\/p>\n<p>The OPIE project is more or less a replacement PIM running over the Linux, and contains many Palm PIM equivalents, and although not as polished as the Palm applications, it makes for a very good beginning. From what I can know, the OPIE system boots off a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angstrom-distribution.org\/\"> \u00c3\u2026ngstr\u00c3\u00b6m Linux <\/a> distribution of a Linux v2.6.23 kernel. And while the networking elements of the Palm T\/X don&#8217;t appear to be operational, it&#8217;s still impressive. <\/p>\n<p>If the forthcoming release of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,2337291,00.asp\">Nova Linux<\/a> can take the edges off this OS, much in the vein of <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\">Android<\/a>, Palm just might pull it out of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>Here hoping!<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having read this article about how to Dual Boot Linux on a Palm TX. I then downloaded the linux distribution described in the demonstration from the Reware Project And loaded it on a spare 2GB SD card as outlined. IT<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=732\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Future of Linux on the Palm<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110,10,71],"tags":[696,701,648,164,683],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-linux","category-palm","tag-android","tag-angstrom","tag-linux","tag-nova","tag-palm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}