[ale] pda recommendations?

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Fri Jun 18 11:48:53 EDT 2004


I should note that a package called kitchensink or some such name has a good 
rep for syncing Linux and the Zaurus PDAs.
Dow


Geoffrey wrote:
> alelist at christopherrussell.net wrote:
> 
>> I've been thinking about a pda -
>>
>> just to log names & addresses, and note reps at the gym.
>>
>> any recommendations? Palm, Zire, Blackberry... et al
> 
> 
> I've got 3 palms currently, all sync well with Linux.  I use jpilot, 
> http://www.jpilot.org/
> 
> Over the past 7+ years, I've had 5 different palms all have synced via 
> jpilot.
> 
>> what syncs w/ evolution in fedora?
> 
> 
> I've never attempted to sync with evolution, although I did try syncing 
> with kpilot and that worked as well.  I've been using jpilot since it 
> was released, about 5 years now I think.  If you don't get positive 
> feedback from anyone else on evolution sync, let me know and I'll give 
> it a try.
> 
>> what was originally great in theory but actually sucked in practice?
>>
>> feedback please, I don't want to commit cash to a crash!
> 
> 
> As you recall, there was a discussion at the NW meeting regarding 
> syncing a M$ pda.  To my knowledge, I've never known anyone to sync an 
> M$ pda to Linux.  I know of a few folks who have tried.  I'd stay away 
> from such devices, more for ethical reasons than any other though.
> 

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