TheDigest Fri, 04 Dec 2009, Volume 02, Number 1438

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Re: Eee
Re: Eee
Re: Netbook Pro

5ate: 3 Dec 2009 17:39:27 +0100
From: Ajai Khattri <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Eee

On Thu, 3 Dec 2009, Jim Watson-Gove <address truncated> wrote:

> One more question. Has anyone come up with a Palm hotsynch program for > Linux?

http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/51114
> Once I get myself comfortable with eeeBuntu, I plan to move onto Linux
> with my desktop. Will probably install a second hard drive for Linux
> OS.

I have a Microsoft-free household - all Macs or Linux :-)

Aj.

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5ate: 3 Dec 2009 18:59:15 +0100
From: Michael Degn <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Eee

> One more question. Has anyone come up with a Palm hotsynch program for > Linux?

Hi Jim, I don't have a Palm so don't know how good it works, but there are several solutions. - Gnome Pilot is a GNOME applet with a daemon that monitors for connections from a PalmOS-based device. - Opensync Palm plugin allows applications using OpenSync to synchronise to and from PalmOS based devices using its HotSync system. - There are also Perl and Python modules available to synchronize directly with the Palm.

Best regards,
/Michael

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5ate: 4 Dec 2009 14:31:15 +0100
From: Steve Truesdale <address truncated>
Subject: Re: Netbook Pro

> Finally, there are at least two Linux distributions that work on the Netbook > Pro.

Darn! Now you are making me rethink my decision not to replace my dead NBP!

The form factor is perfect, but the difficulty in getting decent
working software, and not being able to sync or connect via a serial
cable made me think
it was not worth getting another one.

But if linux is working on it ... that changes the software picture a bit.

Hardware-wise it is actually a very,very nice platform for WinCE (and
Linux) - but because it was never really intended for
the consumer space - there is not much software that works on it
without some hacking.

Thanks for the info!!

Steve Truesdale

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