[TriLUG] speaking of pda's

[Roy Vestal]

I'm trying to find something that I can replace my laptop with. I don't use
the laptop much for anything but browsing and email/irc. Don't want to ahve
to carry it around that much.

Anyone have a Linux PDA suggestion? Even if it's an IPAQ that I'd have to
setup thats ok. I just know there someone out there that needs to sync both
Outlook and Evolution. Come on, I can't be the only one working in M$ and
living in Linux.

----- 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 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] speaking of pda's


> 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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