Re: [SLUG] PDAs
* On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 06:54:08AM +1000, Voytek wrote: A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it to the list: Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? I'm not a Linux desktop user. I use a Palm PDA, and, in fact, due to my use of Palm, I needed to get a windoze desktop (to be able to use certain apps that I want to use). in fact, after some 10 years of being windoze-free, Palm made me a (part time)windoze user. so, I just use windoze to facilitate Palm use. I think that's a similar quandry your friend will have. Just be aware that you don't *have* to use windows with Palm - I use JPilot to synch with my Palm Pilot, and have installed the keyring plugin as a replacement for the 'secret' app I used to use on Palm. Of course, other Palm apps may be a problem. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . Only the autonomous can plan autonomy, organize for it, create it. Temporary Autonomous Zones -- Hakim Bey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDAs
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 11:44:49PM +1000, Del wrote: A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it to the list: Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? - If you want to be able to run a version of Linux on your PDA, then you need to be fairly careful with your research. Have a poke around http://handhelds.org/ . Check out the supported models, and what the different distributions have to offer. - My iPaq doesn't run Linux, but it happily syncs with evolution on my Linux machine. That only covers contacts, tasks and todos, but that and a full backup of my data is all I really want anyway. Check http://synce.sourceforge.net/ for the bits that interface with the iPaq, and http://multisync.sourceforge.net/ for the syncing software. Cheers, -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] PDAs
Hi, A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it to the list: Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDAs
quote who=Del A question from a friend -- since I don't really use or know much about PDAs but have been thinking about getting one, and thought I'd throw it to the list: Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? I'm not a Linux desktop user. I use a Palm PDA, and, in fact, due to my use of Palm, I needed to get a windoze desktop (to be able to use certain apps that I want to use). in fact, after some 10 years of being windoze-free, Palm made me a (part time)windoze user. so, I just use windoze to facilitate Palm use. I think that's a similar quandry your friend will have. -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] PDAs
Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? Ok just a couple of weeks ago I just blatted my ipaq, and installed opie on it. The only problem I found is there are not usbnet drivers freely available. I have found one site who says they have the drivers and have a demo version (they offer you a link that no longer works). I have tried numerous times to contact them and I get no answer. With opie installed you can install qtopia which will allow you to sync over usb or com in windows. I haven't tried this yet as I have been playing with gentoo tring to get e0.17 working on it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
