[kwlug-disc] Nokia smartphone with APT!

[L.D. Paniak]

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unsolicited wrote:
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> As has been said before, Palm is dead. Thus threads like these are of
> great interest for me - I know I have to choose a different platform
> at some point. I'm not looking forward to it.
> 

How about the "soon-to-arrive in Canada" Pre from ... Palm?

I've seen a few examples of getting to a command line in the onboard
WebOS - even running openVPN on the device.  Some detail here:

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Main_Page

Package management looks like a variant of that used for OpenWRT on routers.

The official dev page:

http://developer.palm.com/index.php


I saw VMs somewhere else, can't find them now. OK found them:

http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1585


There's even an O'Reilly book on Pre application development.
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