[TriLUG] speaking of pda's

[David A. Cafaro]

Sharp has only been batting about .500 when it comes to the Linux
community.  For every step forward they seem to take a step backwards. 
They originally setup their sync to work via FTP, but also left the root
user-name and password wide open to hackers if you attached to a
network.  They patched this by limiting connections to the USB ip
address, but that wasn't a great solution.  So when they released the
5600 series and the matching ROMS for the 5500 they completely changed
their sync system.  Unfortunately they only released sync software for
Windows.  They didn't release the sync protocol either.  

It pretty much comes down to lack of communications and lack of
understanding how the Linux community works.  Maybe someday they will
get it.  I love my Zaurus, but I do miss being able to sync.  Truthfully
unless I see Sharp make a major improvement in Linux relations and
developer community, this will be the last Zaurus I own.  It great, but
it's a dead end path at the moment with Sharp not really playing ball. 
My next PDA will probably be a Palm based SmartPhone.  One less gadget
to keep around, and sync as well.

-David

On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 10:26, Roy Vestal wrote:
> That doesn't make sense. Why would Sharp screw up the SL5600 so it couldn't
> sync with Evolution?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David A. Cafaro" <dac at trilug.org>
> To: "Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list" <trilug at trilug.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] speaking of pda's
> 
> 
> > Depending on what ROM you run on your Zaurus yes you can.  If you run
> > the older Sharp 2.3x series ROMs on a SL5500 Zaurus you can sync with
> > Outlook and Evolution.  If you run one of the Third Party ROMS you can
> > sync with Evolution but not Outlook (that I know of).  If you run one of
> > the new Sharp 3.x ROMS on a SL5500 you can sync with Outlook, but not
> > Evolution (yet).  If you run and Sharp ROM for the SL5600 or later
> > Zaurus then you can sync with Outlook but not Evolution (yet).
> >
> > To check out some info take a look at the ZUG here:
> >
> > http://www.zaurususergroup.com/
> >
> > For official Sharp Zaurus stuff:
> >
> > http://www.myzaurus.com/
> >
> > For a project to get the Sharp 3.x and SL5600 ROMS to sync:
> >
> > http://www.cyph.org/zsrep/
> >
> > For all other linux sync stuff check out here:
> >
> > http://multisync.sourceforge.net/
> >
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > David Cafaro
> > SL5500 ROM 3.0 (No sync for Linux for me :-( )
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 09:55, Roy Vestal wrote:
> > > I'm interested in the zaurus. can i connect to evolution and outlook
> > > (multiple systems)?
> >
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