On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 08:31, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Lastly, will Windows CE and Redhat sync if the palm remains on the > > windows OS and how does one install a "cradle" under Evolution (the > > piolt settings" didn't seem to work). > > Well, fortunately you're not using a "Palm", it's a Windows CE PDA. Palm is > a brand name, which makes things somewhat confusing. What you've got uses an > Intel XScale CPU, which can run Linux's ARM port. Here's a link: > > http://tuxmobil.org/pda_linux_xscale.html > > It's highly unlikely that you'll find anything that usefully syncs Windows > CE based PDAs with FOSS applications, although things may have changed since > last I looked.
Expanding a bit, "Palm, Inc." is a company. "Palm OS" is the operating system their PDA's use. Also Handspring, Sony and some others use the Palm OS on their hardware platforms. I don't know if anyone's put GNU/Linux on a Palm hardware platform, but then, there's not so much need perhaps. Palm OS is fast and lite - designed to get the job done. If you switch from one Palm OS app to another, the first one is saved. This doesn't happen with WinCE. Having a GNU/Linux computer in that small form factor might be useful for other than PDA reasons, I suppose. Palm PDA's sync easily with Evolution/Jpilot/GnomePIM etc. 'cause someone wrote the channels to do it. The latest Palm OS 5 runs on ARM processors, so perhaps the port you mention runs on them now. Cheers, Bret -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
