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

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

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-