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2011-02-16 , 13:20
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I beginning to think HP WebOS is my next OS its a shame it isnt fully opensource :-(

But as long as the Meego isnt release any phonehandset (thanks Elop but youre an idiot) and the reference UI of touchpads is kinda halfdone/laggy I dont see any competer to webos it seems to be the best atm :-)

I still beleive Meego could succes but as long there isnt any good HW its just nothing. I mean those tablets shown on MWC is just "reference devices" nothing else...


Keep post comments heree about what u know about WebOS :-)
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2011-02-16 , 13:33
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WebOS is a fantastic system, much better than maemo or anything else currently on the market. The limitations it has had are hardware and app development. And although it isn't fully opensource, it is very pretty good when compared to iOS or others out there.

Hopefully the Pre 3 is a good phone, I'm definitely considering a switch.
 

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2011-02-16 , 13:46
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I'm interested in WebOS, but I don't find any of the upcoming devices that appealing. The Pre 3 looks OK, but I would prefer a side-sliding keyboard. Also, the build quality does not look that great from the videos I've seen.
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philh is offline philh
2011-02-16 , 13:50
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My brother said they had the Pre 3 in the office for couple of days last week, he said the keyboard mechanism started creaking after such a short time. Probably a one-off but it doesn't instills confidence.
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2011-02-16 , 14:02
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when you compare meego and webos (all the layers below the actual user interface), is there much difference? i want a system that's basically a linux kernel with components i know from the desktop (x, bluez, dbus, gstreamer... you know...). i would like to be able to run shell scripts, ssh into the phone, run qt-applications that i wrote myself,...

i don't really care if the top layers, applications and UI, are open or closed.

could webOS deliver this for me? (apart from the fact that i'll still have to find a place to order a device here...)
 

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2011-02-16 , 14:07
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I'm also considering WebOS if I get desperate.

Not too smart to make the "we're moving to Win Phone 7" announcement less then a week after HP blew it out with all of those amazing new WebOS device announcements.

I've been looking over at WebOS Internals and while they don't seem to have nearly the home brew support of Maemo, they do have some interesting packages available on their repository including Upstart, VNC, QT libs, and a full X server and associated libraries.

VERY promising. Even if it's not as true an X11/Linux system as Maemo out of the box, all of the ingredients are available.

Check out the preware repo contents here:
http://git.webos-internals.org/
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2011-02-16 , 14:15
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HP needs better hardware designers. Hopefully they can poach on of the Nokia guys.
 

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mbo is offline mbo
2011-02-16 , 14:16
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They announced yesterday they will send "all qualified developers" a palm pre 2 device for free.

http://developer.palm.com/blog/2011/...opportunities/

Don't know what "qualified" means, but I'll see...
 

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2011-02-16 , 14:24
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is there a bash shell, gnu utils and ability to run chroot apps? If not, what good as linux woud it be?
 
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2011-02-16 , 14:28
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is there a bash shell, gnu utils and ability to run chroot apps? If not, what good as linux woud it be?
There is a terminal app available. You can put bash on it, and several GNU utils will run on it.

Again, not as good as Maemo, but a really good start.
 
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