Chip Lueck wrote:
I'm in the process of weaning my wife from her M$ addiction (I'm already a Linux geek, running FC3, fully updated).
She's ok with pretty much every aspect of Fedora, and the various productivity applications she needs (Open Office, JPilot, Thunderbird, etc.)
There are only two things she relies on that I can't find a suitable
alternative for: She uses Documents to Go to sync documents with her
Palm, and PDA Safe to store private information securely on the Palm. Both of these applications are combination Palm App/Desktop App, but
the desktop app for each is Windoze only. I haven't tried either of
them with wine yet, as I'm I hoping there is some Linux alternative.
Is there anyone out there who knows of an adequate replacement for either of these tools, or has gotten them to work under Fedora?
For those interested, I started the weaning process by moving all her
"My Documents" in the Windoze world to her home dir on my Fedora box. I changed the pointer of her My Documents from her local hard drive to
a Samba-mount. Once she was used to her documents being in a
different place, I gave her a CD to boot from. This CD will boot her
machine as a thin client (ltsp/etherboot) to have a session on my FC3
box. This has been helpful so she can immerse herself in the new
world, but still have her safety blanket at her fingertips, and I
didn't have to make her machine dual-boot.
We're at the point now where she only uses her safety blanket for Palm-related stuff. I'm ready to get her a new machine and her own fresh Fedora installation, but the two Palm apps are the only stopping point.
Man! congratulations on moving your wife to Fedora!!
As for the apps... Hmm... I don't know I was looking for those myself for my own palm, but never found anything, even resorted to bug Pal.com to support Linux since they already support Mac OSX, their answer was clear: No, and we'll never will... <joke>Maybe when we dominate the world they will</joke>... Anyway, I tried to run them under Wine, but they rely too tightly in the system's way of using the hotsync through either the serial or USB ports, so even though the app ran, I could not access the palm device... It was not seen.
