I’m most certainly impressed. I’m not so certain though, that if this project some how takes off, I’d install a copy on my Palm. As archaic as the OS is, it’s UI is pretty much flawless. Having stuck to just using my E61 for pretty much everything from PIM, web browsing and emails the past few weeks, I’m appreciating the sheer simplicity of the Palm UI more and more. I’m not so sure I want anything else.

But having Linux running on it definitely has it’s benefits. Driver support for hardware for one thing. Community support is another - tens (maybe hundreds?) of enthusiast geeks will most certainly churn out more quality work than a bunch of over-worked programmers ;). Then there’s also other benefits of a modern OS - multitasking, support for real files, etc.

Read more -Linux on the LifeDrive. Can someone go put Linux on a WM5 device?