The Future of Palm OS?

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I work for a large organization which is actively replacing Windows XP with
Linux desktops. We have started using Open Office and I can't believe how
good it is. I think my next PDA will either be Linux based or have Linux
interoperability. Palm need to provide Linux drivers or better still Linux
enable the Palm OS if it's to survive the Pocket PC.

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In message <k8Ryc.346$d31.19304@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au>, Sword
<chppxf1@No_SPAMozemail.com.au> writes
>Palm need to provide Linux drivers or better still Linux enable the
>Palm OS if it's to survive the Pocket PC.

Linux can talk quite happily to Palm machines as things are, so I'm not
sure I see any need for drivers!

It might be nice if Palm included something in the manuals for machines
about how to connect to Linux, but since the relevant stuff seems to be
included in all the main Linux distros it doesn't need any more than
that!

In fact, the fact that you need no more than your standard distro CD's
to communicate with your Palm, rather than having to load more stuff
onto a Windows machine, is surely enough recommendation on its own!

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Archived from groups: alt.comp.os.palm,alt.comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,uk.comp.sys.palmtops (More info?)

In message <pan.2004.06.13.16.50.25.750086@gnu-designs.com>, David A.
Desrosiers <hacker@gnu-designs.com> writes
>
>> Linux can talk quite happily to Palm machines as things are, so I'm not
>> sure I see any need for drivers!
>
> And we just made it better. Now syncronizing your Palm on Linux,
>Unix, and OSX machines just got 6x faster, with a little help from libusb.

I'm running Mandrake 10 on a laptop - palm syncing was impressively fast
(certainly faster than via Windows)! I suspect that already includes
the library in question.

>
>> It might be nice if Palm included something in the manuals for machines
>> about how to connect to Linux, but since the relevant stuff seems to be
>> included in all the main Linux distros it doesn't need any more than
>> that!
>
> I've written dozens of detailed HOWTOs on almost every aspect of
>Palm-on-Linux communications. Check out some of the most-popular ones at:
>
> http://howto.pilot-link.org

There isn't a link there to the USB HOWTO, though it's listed in the
text.

And I still think it would be good for Palm to include material in their
manuals. I know Linux people tend to pop out and find the info on the
net - but the half dozen lines of text it would take to tell a new Palm
user how to set up synchronisation on Linux would surely be worth it!

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