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On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 09:57:56AM -0400, Duane Morin wrote: > Once upon a time I carried a Palm Pilot. (To give you a timeframe, > we're talking about PilotPro/PalmIII/IIIfx/IIIc timeframe). At the > time I recall the ability to sync with Linux in any meaningful way was > difficult, at best. We may have different concepts of what "difficult" means. I started using Palms with a Pro, later upgraded with the TRG 3MB expansion, then a IIIx, later a Visor Pro. All of these I synced to Linux boxes. The only difficulty was when USB support was new in Linux and I had the Visor, which took a bit of fiddling with before I figured out how to sync consistently. > machines that could benefit from having access to the device. Have > some reasonable advances been made in syncing Palms with Linux? On a > wifi PDA is it reasonable to assume that I would be able to at the > very least backup my data over the wifi connection to pretty much any > machine of my choosing? I dont want to carry my life around on the You can do a backup very easily. You can even sync to an application like JPilot or Evolution. You can probably do both of these over the net - haven't checked into that lately. -dsr-
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