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How to Sync PocketPC to Linux?

Posted by Cliff on from the putting-pocket-and-desktop-on-the-same-page dept.

Giggles Of Doom asks: "I am a long time Windows user who is getting ready to make the plunge and move to Linux. Microsoft is just getting on my nerves. Anyway, I have made a little list of things I do in Windows that I will still need to be able to do in Linux. A BIG one of those is syncing the data from my PDA with my main computer's mail program. The mail program will probably be KMail, unless others can suggest a better one and give reasons why, and my PDA is a Audiovox Maestro, which is really a rebranded Toshiba 'PDA-1032' running Pocket PC 2002. It has a USB cradle. What Linux solutions are there for this task? I would hate to have everything else work great, but have to boot to Windows or load VMware just to sync my contact info. Remember, I am a Windows user trying to convert, but any solution would have to be pretty user friendly."

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  1. Maybe you should wait... by misfit13b · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Pocket PC, eh? From the impression I got of your question, perhaps a hardcore 100% conversion isn't for you, at least right now. You already have the MS software up and running and assumedly licensed, so perhaps you should, for now, take it a bit slower.

    If your HD is big enough, repartition it out so you can dual boot into RH8 or Mandrake 9 for a while and get comfortable enough to do everything you want to do with it. Then, when the next big Windows OS release comes out, instead of getting that and throwing more money in the MS coffer, you can just jump ship to Linux full on. By then, there will even be better support for your handheld too.

    Cheers,
    m13b

  2. Re:"but"? by toast0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    two points... 1) grammar nazi's will point out that but is functionally equivilent to and.

    2) I believe he is implying that he's trying to convert to a hard core fifty parameters on the command line and at least three or four pipes per line, but he's not there yet so he needs it user friendly still.

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    Need a Catering Connection
  3. Re:Homebrew it! by Gordonjcp · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's flamebait because it doesn't have the phrase "micro$oft winblows is teh suck" in it.

    Duh.