Palm's Linux OS not surfacing until 2008?
By Darren Murph 
posted Jul 2nd 2007 12:24AM
posted Jul 2nd 2007 12:24AM
That sound you're hearing is the collective sigh from everyone patiently waiting for Palm to actually get its act together and unveil its depressingly overdue Linux mobile OS. Yet again, it seems we've been fooled into believing that Palm actually had its ducks in a proverbial row, as BrightHand is now reporting that Palm CEO Ed Colligan recently announced on a conference call that "products based on the new Linux-based platform won't be available until some time next year." Interestingly enough, Colligan also insinuated that the firm would "continue to use Windows Mobile and Garnet OS / Palm OS II for the foreseeable future." Wait, they can actually see some light at the end of this perpetually growing tunnel? We sure as hell can't.
"products based on the new Linux-based platform won't be available until some time next year."
Translation: 4Q 2008
meh...
Right alongside David Nagel's 11 new Cobalt devices.
@Patrick
And 29 new PalmOS licensees that PalmSource/Access cannot announce yet. They're keeping those secret.
Hmm... As long as I'd own the hardware in the most thorough meaning of the phrase, I'd consider getting one. I wonder if the gplv3 would have any effect on this kind of thing...
Will this new OS replace the one on my current PDA, or will I have to buy the new PDA with the new OS?