That didn’t take long. Just hours after HP released the source code for Open webOS 1.0, the folks at webOS Ports have managed to get the operating system up and running on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. This is still an early build. There’s no support for hardware accelerated graphics, which means that the user […]
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HP releases Open webOS 1.0
The first open source version of HP’s webOS operating system is now available. HP is releasing Open webOS 1.0 a little over a year after the company cancelled every phone and tablet designed to run earlier versions of webOS. In other words, webOS lives on… you just can’t buy any devices that run the operating […]
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HP releases open webOS Beta source code, build instructions
HP has released the first beta build of open webOS, the new open source version of the operating system HP paid more than $1.2 billion for when the company acquired Palm. The source code is now available at github, as well as instructions for building the operating system from source and installing the environment on […]
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HP spins of remains of Palm team as Gram, a new software company
After spending billions of dollars to acquire Palm and build a few phones and tablets, HP canceled all of its webOS hardware last year. While the webOS operating system that drove the Pre, Veer, and TouchPad is transitioning to an open source project, the folks at webOS Nation report that HP is quietly moving the […]
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Open webOS is designed for new hardware, won’t support HP TouchPad, Pre, Veer
There’s good news and bad news on the HP Open webOS front today. HP is moving to create a new open source version of the operating system that currently powers its discontinued smartphones and tablets such as the HP TouchPad tablet and Pre and Veer smartphones. Today the company released the Luna System Manager and […]
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HP releases webOS Community Edition, Open webOS still on the way
As promised, HP has released much of the source code for webOS 3.0.5 — the operating system that shipped with the HP TouchPad Tablet last year. HP is calling this webOS Community Edition, and the goal is to make it easier for third party developers to tweak, improve, and write apps for the TouchPad and […]