[linux] Re: advice to all WAS: suggestion to Marc Shuttleworth

[paai]

Geert Stappers wrote:
> Op 20090925 om 15:23 schreef paai:
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>> Jan Joosten wrote:
>>     
>>> Op Friday 25 September 2009 14:30:49 paai schreef:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> PDAs are very important gadgets. They carry stuff like appointments,
>>>> personal contacts and memos in your shirt pocket. Obviously, it is
>>>> important (to say the least) that you can copy or synchronize such data
>>>> to a PC or laptop.
>>>>
>>>> The fact is that there are almost no PDAs that can synchronize these
>>>> data to a Linux computer. If you have a Palm  PDA, there are some suites
>>>> that can synchronize with Linux, but even then, the quality of the
>>>> applications is shaky. (kpilot, jpilot, evolution).
>>>>
>>>> For the majority of PDAs that have no Palm-OS, even that opportunity
>>>> does not exist. There are some initiatives, but none of these is solid
>>>> enough to make me confident that my next PDA will cooperate with Linux.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Amen to that!
>>> Jan Joosten
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Ik zou zeggen, stuur een soortgelijk mailtje en probeer anderen ook 
>> zover te krijgen...
>>     
>
> Parallel daar aan: Let bij aankoop van de PDA op de sync mogelijkheden.
>
> Verdiep je in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML
>
>   
Heb ik gedaan, en al snel bleek uit reacties op internet dat dat ook al 
niet vlekkeloos verliep...



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