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Syncing Your PDA w/ Obscure O/Ses?
Nomad7674 asks: "I am part of a team helping to build a site for discussing SmartPhones (i.e. combo cell phone and data function devices). We are trying to become a one-stop shop for SmartPhone-related information and have run up against one brick wall that the Slashdot community may be able to help with. We want to document every operating system that can be sync'd with a Palm or PocketPC or Symbian device. We already have information on the biggies (Apple and Windows), on the moderates (Linux and the Unixes) and a few of the more obscure including Amiga and BeOS. But we seem to have exhausted the searches of Google, Alta Vista, etc. and the knowledge of the general community elsewhere. What experiences have other Slashdot readers had with syncing their Palm, PocketPC, or other PDA device with obscure OSes?"
and you read that as "Weirdo"?
Here's a clue for you: as a desktop OS (and I think we can safely assume that people are not syncing their PDA's on the database machines in the server room), Linux is, so far, moderately successful at best, in the sense of popularity. In fact, I'd say that "moderate" is a generous rating. There are probably tens of thousands of regular Linux desktop users, which is a lot, except that there are millions of Windows desktop users.
He's not calling Linux obscure. He's saying they know about Windows, Mac, and Linux et al, and now they want to know about obscure OS'es, people who sync their PDA's with a ZX-81 or slide rule or something.
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There are many thousands of users happily syncronizing their PalmOS-based PDAs on Linux and BSD, using serial, IR, and USB connection methods.