On Saturday, 2007-12-15 08:19:21, Ralph Alvy wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 05:17:11 am Scandals & Animals wrote: > > >I use Linux and sync with JPilot. I'd be interested in hearing someone > > > doing it with VMWare/Windows. I couldn't do it with VirtualBox/Windows. > > > > • Is jpilot a palm sync program that comes with the Linux distro? Wouldn't > > Hotsync work with a Windows emulator? > > > > Thinking of switching to Linux... > > Some Linux distros come with jpilot, some don't. It's easy to find on the net > (jpilot.org). All distros come with pilot-link, the conduit software that > jpilot requires. > > That said, using jpilot is definitely more difficult to get used to using on > Linux than Palm Desktop on Windows. And it's less feature-rich than the Palm > Desktop. However, one feature of jpilot is that it recognizes Datebk5/6 > floats. If you don't use Datebk5/6 this would irrelevant, of course. > > I'm pretty sure I've heard people getting VMWare to allow the Palm Desktop to > sync with their devices. That'll put you out $189.
VMWare Player by itself is free, and can be made to run Windows. I've sucessfully used Windows XP on VMWare on my Kubuntu linux box to sync a Treo650 using Bluetooth. Trip
