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ebresie · 01/13/2009, 09:41 AM

Does anyone have any information on the underlying lower level OS that hosts the webOS? Since apps are based on HTML5, CSS, etc, then there is a browser. That browser (is it based on anything in particular? Webkit? Opera?) then sits on top of something...what is that?

Rumors previously were that it is Linux based. If so, any details on what distribution if any? How much of the Linux portion is under the GPL (I would hate for Palm to get complaints for not opening their Linux based code) and openly available for review?

01/13/2009, 09:41 AM	#8 (permalink)
ebresie Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Underlying OS? Does anyone have any information on the underlying lower level OS that hosts the webOS? Since apps are based on HTML5, CSS, etc, then there is a browser. That browser (is it based on anything in particular? Webkit? Opera?) then sits on top of something...what is that? Rumors previously were that it is Linux based. If so, any details on what distribution if any? How much of the Linux portion is under the GPL (I would hate for Palm to get complaints for not opening their Linux based code) and openly available for review?