In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 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 -- Ben Darnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://thoughtstream.org Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP/GPG key 1024D/1F06E509 -- For information on using the ACCESS Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.access-company.com/developers/forums/
