[ale] Palm Response Summary (OT)

[John M Trostel]

---Reply to mail from Fletch about [ale] Palm Response Summary (OT)

jpilot and pilot-xfer work fine for the Handspring also
(and the gnome conduits - although I don't really like them)

>>>>>> "Danny" == Danny Cox <danny at compgen.com> writes:
> 
>     Danny> Responses: hirsch at zapmedia.com writes: If you aren't
>     Danny> getting a rechargable battery, I can't think of a good
>     Danny> reason for getting a palm instead of a handspring.  The
>     Danny> visor is pretty nice--maybe not quite as elegant as a palm
>     Danny> III, but it does come in cool colors.  And last I looked,
>     Danny> it was a lot cheaper.
> 
>     Danny>  While true Handspring sez on their web page that they
>     Danny> "do not support Unix or Linux".  That, and their 8MB model
>     Danny> is also $249.  I'll stick to Palm.
> 
>         Handspring says that, but I'll also bet that you won't
> explicitly find `We support UNIX or Linux' on any of Palm's pages.  I
> just got a Visor a couple of weeks ago and it works quite well with
> Linux and coldsync (http://www.ooblick.com/software/coldsync/).
> Granted coldsync doesn't have all the drool-proof guis that pilot-link 
> has, but then again I'm not that big of a gui person.  It's also
> rather easy to write your own conduits with the Palm::PDB and ColdSync 
> modules for perl (by the author of coldsync).
> 
>         The only problem I've had has bean that the USB chipset in my
> home box (Asus P5A with the OHCI flavour of USB chips) isn't as well
> supported by the Linux USB drivers.  I shelled out the $30 more for a
> serial cradle for home and use the USB one at work (where I've got a
> Compaq with UHCI USB chips that works perfectly well).  
>         
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John M. Trostel
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Connex
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