On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 10:05:13AM -0500, Tom Hoover wrote: > When I bought my Clie a couple of months ago, I took the easy way and installed > the Palm software under Win4Lin...hotsyncs, etc, work flawlessly. Now that I'm > sure that I'll be keeping the Clie, I'd like to go ahead and switch to a > Linux-based sync software package. > > I've read about the many software packages out there (j-pilot, k-pilot, etc), > but would like some first hand recommendations from real-world users. My #1 > (and really only) demand is data integrity...I want accurate, flawless two-way > sync capability...I cannot afford an "oops" that causes me to miss an > appointment or lose a phone number. > > As long as data integrity is there, any other bells 'n whistles will be gravy. For whatever it is worth: My experience: - pilot-manager: Works fine. Backup scheduling is better than I have seen elsewhere, so most sync's are pretty quick. But: memos would sync Palm->PC, but not the other way. It messed up my memos, but the backups rescued me. Those bugs may well be fixed by now. - gnome-pilot with assorted conduits: Lots of bells & whistles. But I was never able to get it to work (gnome-pilotd keept crashing for me). Hopefully the serious bugs will be fixed soon, and I can have a proper try. - jpilot: What I use now. It doesn't synchronize expenses or any other apps, and doesn't really talk to anything else on the PC; allegedly it supports plugins, but I never needed any. Never lost a record with it (but I'm not sure how it handles conflicts). HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen karl@jorgensen.com www.karl.jorgensen.com ... An rfc2324 advocate http://www.rfc.net/rfc2324.html
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