tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19463783.post949017301935130754..comments2016-11-05T06:50:52.444-07:00Comments on Chuck's Blog: Palm Pre and a few warts...Chuck Wolberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08724990719580309488noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19463783.post-27113686396591793912009-08-13T16:08:05.612-07:002009-08-13T16:08:05.612-07:00I've been ignoring mobile devices lately, avoi...I've been ignoring mobile devices lately, avoiding the temptation of spending money on them, kind of wanting an iPhone, really wanting not to do business with AT&T, and sticking with my Treo 650.<br /><br />A few days ago, though, a friend got me interested in the Pre. I'm not crazy about the fact that anything which is to be available via Palm's application repository must be written in Javascript, but it seems like Palm has something pretty good going.<br /><br />You'd probably be interested in this <a href="http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9834/more-pre-hacks-and-inner-details-revealed/" rel="nofollow">description of installing software from the Optware repository on the Pre</a>. I'd never heard of Optware before, but it's described there as:<br /><br /><i>"Optware is the result of years of work from the nslu2-linux.org project, which was originally built around hacking Linux-running NAS hardware like the Linkysys NSLU2. It's a Linux package repository chock-full of apps like web servers, compiler toolchains and even things like Asterix (an open-source PBX platform). As mentioned in the introduction, you can now install these 1700+ packages onto the Pre, essentially turning the device into a full-fledged Linux computer. The best part? It's been rigged so that all of this can be done without getting in the way of webOS. There's no GUI for these apps as of yet - that will have to wait until the public release of the SDK - but they all work just fine via the command line."</i><br /><br />Yee-haw!Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03437210532036832703noreply@blogger.com