In article <5663@palm-dev-forum>, Malcolm wrote:
>I'm new to this mail list and not sure if this is the right place to post
>this message. I would like to know if there's a Palm Desktop application
>for Linux platform. What I actually need is to be able to hot-sync my Palm
>data back to my PC that is currently running on Windows 95. But I'm getting
>sick of Windows... it's getting bigger and bigger, eating up lots of RAM.
>So I intend to switch over to Linux if there's a hot-sync application on
>Linux. Any comment?
You can definitely back up your data to the desktop in Linux.
pilot-xfer performs essentially the same function as BackupBuddy on
Windows. I don't use a desktop PIM, so that's all I've used, but I
believe jpilot is a reasonable equivalent for Palm Desktop. (see also
kpilot and gnome-pilot)
>
>I notice some of the Palm developers here are using GCC on Linux and Unix
>for their Palm application development, so may I ask if anyone of you out
>there develop conduits?
There are several frameworks for developing conduits. libpisock is used
by pilot-xfer and can also be used by standalone conduits (such as
malsync, used to load new data into AvantGo), but they don't integrate
with pilot-xfer and require a separate button press. The other desktop
apps (jpilot, kpilot, gnome-pilot) each have their own (incompatible
AFAIK) conduit system. There has been talk of designing a standard
conduit system for Unix, but there's nothing to show for it yet. I'm
writing a conduit with Pyrite, which is a Python interface to the Palm.
>
>And is GCC the only development tool for Palm in Linux?
Yes, AFAIK.
-Ben
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