The folks at HackNDev have just managed to get OpenMoko(another mobile Linux, this time aimed at an opensource phone) running on a Palm TX. Let’s quote them for some technical details:
I managed to run and adapt OpenMoko on PalmTX. It is built using the good-old OpenEmbedded, so using a Palm kernel (and modules, of course) and a root image from http://buildhost.openmoko.org/ , you can run OpenMoko on Palm.
One problem is OpenMoko is based on GTK, so it will need more than 32MB RAM (the phone has 128MB). Another problem is the screen size: 640×480, so everything looks a bit too large. I was able to scale the interface down to 480×320, but there still were some elements not to fit the PalmTX’s display. And one final problem: OpenMoko has a looong road ahead, meaning that the distribution and the interface are not fully functional, but I am sure they WILL be.
The announcement is here:
http://hackndev.com/node/701
A few screenshots of the TX running OpenMoko are available here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/costinstroie/LinuxOnPalmTXOpenMoko
Overall, congratulations to HackNDev – another success story from there…
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good job, but unfortunally when i am access hack&dev the page not found, would you upload again in other site if yes would you inform to me.
Best regard
Hi Jack,
thank you so much for talking back!
It looks like their permalinks are dead – why not visit hackndev and look for the content?
All the best
Tam Hanna