Re: Cross-Post: Installing on Palm Treo?

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > Um. Palm OS Garnet (what every remotely modern Treo runs) is completely > incapable of running multiple simultaneous processes without hacking the OS > beyond recognition. It is an absolutely horrid concept for a server, if it > were even possible to port Apache, MySQL, and PHP to Palm OS (which in no way > resembles Unix, Linux, Windows, or anything even remotely Posix). I don't > know if anyone has successfully managed to port Linux to a modern Treo, but > even if they had it would be just to prove that they can, not because it > would be actually usable. > > Seriously, don't even waste time thinking about making a Palm device into a > dev server. There are some mobile devices you can do that to; this ain't one > of them. > > (Disclaimer: I currently own and use a Treo 680, and used to work as an IT > journalist reviewing, among other things, Palm handhelds and smartphones. > That was a few years ago, but I've not heard anything to suggest that > anything has even remotely changed in this regard. In fact, everything I > hear is lamenting that it hasn't. <g>) Thanks for the insight, Larry. Much appreciated. However, as stated, I'm using (yes, I did buy it) the Palm 700wx, which has Windows Mobile 5.0. I should've mentioned the operating system, but I figured those familiar with Palm devices would recognize the ###p and ###w/###wx letter-endings. ;-P (Just kidding.... I only realized it myself this morning. I've had about 0.0001% experience with Palm before this weekend.) So perhaps a better question is, has anyone had any luck doing WAMP on Windows Mobile (specifically v5.0)? -- </Dan> Daniel P. Brown Senior Unix Geek <? while(1) { $me = $mind--; sleep(86400); } ?>