It was pretty quiet for a long time, so I had to make this post. Consider it more like a blog entry then any official info though.

H&D Team did a great job porting linux to Palm handhelds. Most popular handhelds are nearly "production-use" (at least I use linux on daily basis). We could send our patches upstream, but the reality is somewhat different. It's too much hassle to send them to arm-linux, due to lots of dependencies on hh.org tree. The code is not clean enough to be approved at arm-linux, and nobody seems to care enough to clean it.

Palm has nearly completely lost its position on the market. I don't really believe in next-generation PalmOS based on linux. Neither I believe in bright future of Palm.

It seems, that most of players on mobile market have realised the power of open source and Linux. Nokia has bought Trolltech, Google is working on Android. OpenMoko still fixes bugs in GTAv2 -_~ We might find some place for our kernel-hacking skills, or we might not.

Anyways, that was fun to code.

-- Vladimir Pouzanov, co-founder of Hack&Dev, founder of Handheld Hacking

PS: Belldandy, be kind to us all...