Re: [Evolution] Reliable Palm device?

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:15:19AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 22:50 -0700, Simon Roberts wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I've never had great luck with palm devices and Evolution. Partly,
> > perhaps, because I'm using versions that come with distros (usually
> > either SuSE or Ubuntu) and they're never "the latest".
>
> I'd suspect the issue is more with the Palm OS version.  pilot-link (the
> utilities and libraries used by LINUX applications to exchange data with
> the Palm) had issues for a long time with OS version 5 and later
> devices.  pilot-link development [around 2005] appeared essentially
> moribund,  I don't know if it picked up since;  our response
> [OpenGroupware] was just to drop Palm support from our project when
> PalmOS 5 shipped.
>
> I'm not aware of a good local syncing solution.  I'd recommend taking a
> look at Funambol myPORTAL <http://funambol.com/solutions/portal.php> for
> an excellent and *real* Open Source [unlike g...] cloud solution if you
> are open to that.  Funambol can sync just about anything that has IP
> connectivity.
Yes and no.  Funambol (in my experience) isn't an "out of the box"
solution, it needs a fair amount of fairly knowledgeable configuration
to get it working really well.  It's also *huge*, several hundred
megabytes. 

In addition Funambol is *only* a synchronisation server, it doesn't
have any proper desktop client (just a simple test client) so you need
your [Palm] PDA, and funambol *and* a desktop client that will talk to
Funambol.

There's still no really neat Linux desktop <--> PDA synchronisation
available to replace j-pilot.  I used to use Palms and never found
anything usable other than J-Pilot.  I now have a Nokia E71 and the
situation is exactly the same. I have ended up using Nokia's PC-Suite
and Outlook running in a VirtualBox XP guest on my xubuntu system.


FWIW my wife still uses a Palm Treo and that works pretty well with
Evolution, it's not *perfect* but it's quite usable.

-- 
Chris Green