12-11-2002, 02:02 AM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Pocket PC Syncing on Linux
Running a Linux box and wanting to sync your Pocket PC? There might be hope...
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12-11-2002, 02:30 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 134
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Finally!
I have been waiting for this for a long time. In fact, I have been looking for this feature ever since i first looked at Linux.
Now, perhaps, I will install Linux on that little 7GB of extra, non-formatted space on my 80GB hard-drive. Mandrake Linux 9.0, baby!
Yes, I do realize that this is pretty simple, but I also know that this project is far enough along and enough people use Pocket PCs now that I think that either this project or a similar one will be included in the next subrelease (or maybe three or four subreleases from now) of, say, Gnome or KDE. I am excited! I hope they will support TCP/IP syncing as I just got my WiFi CF card's MAC address registered at my college.
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12-11-2002, 02:37 AM
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Pupil
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 47
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Wuh oh, hope Microsoft doesn't come along and try to shut you down now, Jason! 
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12-11-2002, 02:44 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 735
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Sync to a Mac please!!!
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12-11-2002, 02:49 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 134
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Well, if you use OS X, that's a *NIX-based core, so it shouldn't be too hard to port this as a console app.
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12-11-2002, 03:35 AM
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12-11-2002, 03:36 AM
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Pontificator
Join Date: Mar 2002
Posts: 1,329
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Once again someone has to step up to the plate and do what MS should have done a long time ago.
And thank god for it. I've been trying to get ActiveStink to work in WINE with no success.
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12-11-2002, 04:50 AM
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Sage
Join Date: Mar 2004
Posts: 735
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Thanks for the info, Jonathan. I did not get the previous versions because of the bad reviews. Also, PocketMac announced the version for Jaguar was done a week or two but one can not find it on their site so I stopped checking.
In any case, I am still all for a free solution of course. I'd port the linux version to Mac but as one of the poll on the front page says: "I can't code my way out of a paper bag." (despite working as a IT consultant).
- Ken
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12-11-2002, 07:44 AM
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Thinker
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 332
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I was very keen to give pocketmac a go but I don't have a pocket pc anymore. 
I'm waiting for something really serious, like the 56xx maybe.
Daniel
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12-11-2002, 11:44 AM
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Ponderer
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 95
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PocketMac is a cruel joke, $80-ish for beta software that doesn't really work with no demo at all
Since SyncCE is supposed to work with BSD as well as Linux, maybe I could hack it to work on my iBook via Fink. Of course, there is still the matter of WHAT I would sync it to...
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