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===== Software A lot of the software on the Pre is GPLed, and Palm are therefore obliged to provide copies of the appropriate source code to anyone who receives the software (note that receiving the device is not required - if the software is downloadable then the source offer must be made available to anyone who receives the software). The source code is not currently downloadable - instead Palm have included a written offer to supply the source code on request. This satisfies the GPL, but I can't be bothered doing that for the moment so all of this is purely based on examining the binaries. The full list of applications extracted from the open source information documented included is here. [http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/palm_pre_software.txt] [...] Overall I'm impressed. There's a few rough edges and some obvious short-term hacks, but overall the Pre has the appearance of being a well-engineered distribution. It's recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn't. Since it seems to be possible to gain root by entering the developer mode, I suspect that modifying the firmware image isn't especially difficult. It'll be interesting to see what happens when GSM ones appear. There's some more information at the pre dev wiki. [http://predev.wikidot.com/] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
