[GRLUG] WebOS for HP machines

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Don Wood <donlumber at comcast.net> wrote:

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> In an interview published this week, Apotheker told Bloomberg News that HP
> intends to offer the webOS software along with Microsoft's well-known
> Windows operating system on all of its PCs. The company hopes to increase
> the adoption of webOS, both by PC users and by independent developers who
> create applications for PCs and mobile gadgets.
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> It will be interesting to see how many takers
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> HP gets.  It can probably knock $50 off the price
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> I’m wondering why they would go through all that work when they could offer
> a much more mature and robust (I’m assuming anyway) distro. Unix or Linux. *
> *shrug** Unless of course they want to be like Apple and have a
> proprietary machine from OS to hardware to software. I understand that
> people will still have the option to have MS instead but I’m also wondering
> if you can buy it with WebOS and boot to Windows via something akin to boot
> camp later on.
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Not clear.  Until I read this I thought webOS
was just for HP's portable devices.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebOS

Note "*webOS* is a
proprietary<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_software>
 mobile operating
system<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_operating_system> running
on the Linux kernel <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel>, initially
developed by Palm <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm,_Inc.>,"

So yes, it appears HP might be thinking
it can go the Apple route and make its
OS proprietary.  But how, using a Linux
kernel?

   -- Bob

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