Windows Phone 7 Series To Finally Bring CE 6.0 to Users
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 16th Feb 2010 21:01 UTC
Windows Since I'm a little under the weather at the moment, posting is a bit slow on OSNews (yes, a story about Notion Ink's Adam is upcoming!). I'm kind of picking the simple and easy-to-write items for now, and this is most certainly one of them. As some of you might know, Microsoft unveiled Windows Phone 7 Series yesterday, a complete reboot of its mobile operating system. While little is known about its internals, it's most likely based on Windows Embedded CE 6.0.
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RE[6]: mmm mmm good
by Thom_Holwerda on Wed 17th Feb 2010 00:12 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: mmm mmm good"
Thom_Holwerda
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2005-06-29

Err, it might be Linux underneath, but webOS has a completely custom userland - heck, it has a very revolutionary userland. It's not just a reimplementation of some existing idea - it's completely new.

As such, it is to be expected that the webOS' multitasking capabilities need refining.

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RE[7]: mmm mmm good
by Fettarme H-Milch on Wed 17th Feb 2010 00:13 in reply to "RE[6]: mmm mmm good"
Fettarme H-Milch Member since:
2010-02-16

Err, it might be Linux underneath, but webOS has a completely custom userland

Since when does the userland handle multitasking?

Oh, and BTW: webOS's userland is far from being totally new. If you look at http://opensource.palm.com/1.3.5.2/index.html you'll see many familiar packages (at least familiar to people with some Linux knowledge)

Edited 2010-02-17 00:24 UTC

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RE[8]: mmm mmm good
by poundsmack on Wed 17th Feb 2010 00:38 in reply to "RE[7]: mmm mmm good"
poundsmack Member since:
2005-07-13

yes it is not 100% new and created from nothingness, but as a whole put together package, it is new. also, if you know your OS's under the hood, user land (many aspects of it) doesn't access the kernel with a single thread, and i believe webos's UI elements interact with the kernel over multiple threads (i could be wrong though, i don't use or program for webos... yet).

keep in mind i could be wrong on this and have not done the appropriate research the verify...

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RE[8]: mmm mmm good
by kaiwai on Wed 17th Feb 2010 01:44 in reply to "RE[7]: mmm mmm good"
kaiwai Member since:
2005-07-06

Since when does the userland handle multitasking?


Where did he say that it did. Either provide proof or retract.

Oh, and BTW: webOS's userland is far from being totally new. If you look at http://opensource.palm.com/1.3.5.2/index.html you'll see many familiar packages (at least familiar to people with some Linux knowledge)


Yes, but a system is a sum of all its parts; the kernel is but one component, how they operate together in a system dictates how well it functions.

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RE[8]: mmm mmm good
by Lennie on Wed 17th Feb 2010 10:42 in reply to "RE[7]: mmm mmm good"
Lennie Member since:
2007-09-22

Yes, I see ipkg, which was developed for the Compaq/HP iPaq at the time. Like Nokia's Maemo and Ubuntu all based on Debian and Linux, interresting.

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