On Fri, 2004-11-05 at 21:09 -0500, sly wrote: > i'm running fc2 on a dell laptop basically for office work, internet, > mail... nothing very exciting! Just being able to do all this with free software is exciting! > i have some questions and i hope i'm on the right place. if not, i > apologize in advance! You've found a good place. > 1 - can i run "yum -y update" automatically when i turn on my laptop? Just put it in /etc/rc.local -> /etc/rc.d/rc.local (although some would advise against the -y flag). > 2 - i was trying to convert a palm file into text w/ KPalmDOC but the > end result is not a test file. anybody uses pda's? Yup, but not KPalmDOC - may check it out. > > 3 - beside backing up, what else does the Gnome PalmOS do? I like jpilot, but can also sync with Evolution, and check out gnome-pilot-conduits. Phil