What's the state of Palm<->Linux these days?

[gerald.feldman at hp.com (Jerry Feldman)]

On Thursday 14 April 2005 9:57 am, 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.
>
> I'm thinking about getting a device, most likely something with Wifi
> (like the Tungsten C).  Although I have a windows desktop at home that
> I can use as a primary syncing station, I do have 3 other Linux
> 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
> device and not have a backup.  I don't really nede the ability to
> create appointments on the desktop and push them, only to archive them
> from the device to the desktop.
>
> Ultimately I just want it for an organizer so that I stop forgetting
> about all my phone calls and appointments.  I'm out of that "unless I
> can write the next killer app for it I don't want it" phase of my
> programmer life :).  But given that I have wifi at home and work I
> would certainly love to be able to fire up the occasional ssh session
> or maybe even a VNC.
I use jpilot on Linux as my organizer. Most of the Palms sync very well with 
it. There is also a KDE (kpilot) and GNOME (gpilot) component. I did have 
some initial difficulty with the Treo650, but found that I had to add a 
line to udev (/etc/udev) to make it work with the 2.6 kernel. 
The 2.6 kernel is a bit different than the 2.4 was. 
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