Re: [tlug] synching the zaurus? which PIM to use?

[Alain Hoang <hoanga@example.com>]

scott wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to decide which direction to go with my Zaurus C3200. I'm
> currently using a cacko rom, but I cant find a version of the ko/pi
> synch rpm compatible with centos4. 
	Ouch, there's nothing in freshrpms.net or any of the other RPM 
repositories available?  I'm afraid I don't use Centos 4 that much so am 
not really sure.

	You might be able to get the source tarball and compile it on your own 
and then use checkinstall [1] to create a RPM so it can easily be 
installed or uninstalled on Centos machines.

> I haven't tried open zaurus as of yet- still a bit wary of having to
> repartition the hard drive because if it turns out to be a huge hassle
> getting everything to work it might not be worth it. 

	OZ has been making progress but if you want a stable PDA I'm not sure 
OZ is at that stage yet.  I could be utterly wrong though.

> Any recommendations for synching my PIM data? Should I just repartition
> and see what happens?

	If you can get KO/PI up and running, I have found that to be your best 
option.  It might be worth the hassle of trying to compile KO/PI on 
Centos4 to get a pretty nice PIM suite.

	My brief attempts to use the Sharp one left such a bad taste in my 
mouth (proprietary format, poorly documented, UTF-8 un-friendly) I 
consider the included PIM suite an anti-feature personally.

	I also setup my KO/PI setup to sync over SSH to my main server which is 
actually rather nice although it does necessitate having a network 
connection but that should be a piece of cake with the Zaurus ;-)


Alain

[1] http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/