Linux-to-Palm Integration?

Randseed asks: "I'm a physician and am looking to buy a PDA to make my life a lot easier. My entire computer network is based around Linux. The hospitals' are Windows, but I don't need to explicitly deal with them. This is where my fellow geeks at Slashdot come in. What kind of integration exists for PalmOS PDAs and Linux at this point? What do you guys use? What is the best way to deal with installing software on the Palm from a Linux machine?"

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k/jpilot

[superatrain]

I use kpilot and jpilot... (qt / gtk) they both work well.... to use a usb device, the port on last check was /dev/ttyUSB0 good luck!! (u need pilot tools or something like that to use it..)

Re:k/jpilot

[Goeland86]

you forgot a link to jpilot: Jpilot.org
Also, worth noting that Jpilot is a virtual clone function for function, of the Palm desktop software.
Truly easy to use, and efficient. The interface is clean too. I like it.

Is this what you are looking for?

[WebHostingGuy]

http://pilot-link.org/

pilot-link is a suite of tools used to connect your Palm or PalmOS® compatible handheld with Unix, Linux, and any other POSIX-compatible machine. pilot-link works with all PalmOS® handhelds, including those made by Handspring, Sony, and Palm, as well as others. pilot-link includes userspace "conduits" that allow you to syncronize information to and from your Palm device, as well as libraries of Palm-compatible functions that allow other applications to take advantage of the code included in pilot-link. There are also several language "bindings" that allow you to use your favorite development language with pilot-link, such as Java, Tcl, Perl, and Python.

gnome-pilot & Evolution

[PianoComp81]

Others have mentioned pilot-link, jpilot, and kpilot. There's also gnome-pilot, which is basically like hotsync for Windows. It's based on pilot-link, but is a good front-end. You can also sync with Evolution, an Outlook clone. The conduits for Evolution need a little help (a few people, including me, are working on that), but the mostly work. Evolution also doesn't have a memos component to it (though check out the evolution-memos project for a working Memos component that I've been working on - even has a working gnome-pilot conduit)

I'd say support for the Palm is good, but not mature yet. gnome-pilot makes it easy to sync with AvantGo and the other major conduits. JPilot is good at that, too, and is basically a clone of Palm Desktop. pilot-link is the basis for most Palm support, and is usually kept up-to-date with the latest releases from PalmSource and Palm vendors.

Re:Pockets

[pkhuong]

Residents learn to use them this way. It is simply much more faster for them to look interactions and dosages in a Palm than in an incomplete handbook. Being faster than the other students when quizzed -> cookies ;) It's not an addiction, it's simply becoming using the tools to become more efficient.

There are several, but really only one...

[hacker]

pilot-link is probably the most-current out there so far... works on OSX, Linux, BSD natively, and soon... Windows as well. There are other projects (ColdSync, jSyncManager) but they don't support current handhelds and they work questionably on the platforms we support in our base tree.

pilot-link has languages bindings for Perl, Python, Java, and TCL. We've got support for the latest Palm handhelds, including the Tungsten T5, LifeDrive and Tungsten E2.

pilot-link supports writing to external storage (SD cards, CompactFlash, MemoryStick), and we support libusb as well for a nice 600% speedup over the standard usb->serial layers present in Linux. Darwinusb uses native usb by default (no serial layers involved).

If you're interested in seeing the code, we've got a public CVS, Doxygenized code output, CVS statistics, and many other things.

Don't forget our mailing lists as well, if you're interested in following the discussions. I've written some detailed HOWTO documents as well to help users with their Palm devices.

I just released 0.12.0-pre4 a few days ago. Try it out... we need feedback and testers. (Bugs go here).

If you want to talk to us real-time, we're out on irc.pilot-link.org in #pilot-link. We'd love to hear from you...

lots adn its really good

[josepha48]

pilot-xfer is the base of all Linux / palm life AFAIK. Then other GUIs are build on top of that.

Both KDE and GNOME have sync GUI's if you need that kind of thing.

I've got a clie, and have had a palm V. Most of the Palms are supported I think. Check it out -> http://www.pilot-link.org/