http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/ Engadget Comments for Palm OS 5, RIP. Access Linux Platform (ALP), hello beautiful! http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/What a waste of a great brand name.]]>Feb 14th 2006 9:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 14th 2006 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 14th 2006 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 14th 2006 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/
oh my god w00t!!! :D
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They specifically said they're leveraging all of the PalmSource apps because of their "recognized ease of use". They are replacing the web browser (fine by me), although I wish they'd create a WebCore-based one like Nokia did - that thing looks sweet.


"A number of ACCESS and PalmSource technologies have been incorporated into ALP, including:

PalmSource mobile applications including PIMs, multimedia, messaging, PalmSource HotSync and Palm Desktop -includes the recognized ease-of-use that users expect
PalmSource messaging and telephony middleware - a highly modular and scalable implementation
ACCESS NetFront browser - a proven success with over 200 million deployments in 721 commercial products for more than 30 handset and 90 Internet device manufacturers worldwide"]]>Feb 14th 2006 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/
From reading the press release, it looks like devices are more than a year away. :-(
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As far as this mysterious "Access" company goes, I assume they are not complete dumbasses, and I imagine that some of the Palm-branding will be held over to help acceptance of the Access Linux Platform, as soon as it is ready to be market tested. (As long as they are contractually allowed to do so.) I mean, if they are dumping the Garnet codebase to rewrite the OS based on Embedded Linux, and if you are dumping the Palm branding, what's the point of buying out PalmSource in the first place?

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What's more, when any third-party app crashes, it takes the whole device with it -- there's no notion of a single process dying but the system as a whole recovering. In the middle of a phone call on your Treo while you're running that buggy notepad program? Kiss your phone conversation goodbye.

I like the UI better than Windows Mobile, but stable? Not even close. A Palm-compatible device with a modern OS underneath it can't come soon enough for me.]]>Feb 14th 2006 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/

Access I hope realizes this and leverages it! ]]>Feb 15th 2006 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 20th 2006 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 20th 2006 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/Feb 25th 2006 9:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/14/palm-os-5-rip-access-linux-platform-alp-hello-beautiful/If ACCESS Linux is too slow to be released, it seems to me many users will be turning towards these projects... and they won't be using ACCESS.
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