The tangled saga of Palm’s operating system is going to get twistier, if an announcement at an analyst meeting in New York by Palm CEO Ed Colligan is any indication: later this year, the company plans to combine its existing Garnet OS with a new Linux-based platform. Switching to Linux would mean that Palm would once again have its own operating system—even though late last year it managed to secure a perpetual license to the Garnet OS, which it originally developed, from Access Systems Americas. The deal includes the right to modify the Garnet source code.
