Well, I'll buy that there's *one*...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:28:17PM -0500, Christopher Browne wrote:
> "10 Windows features I would like to see in Linux"
> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=1196
> 
> A fair number of the items aren't "features" as I'd recognize them...
> 
> The only one I'd unambiguously agree with is that syncing cell phones
> is a Huge Pain for anything aside from PalmOS-based stuff.
> 
> - libpisync, for PalmOS, is eminently usable, but the platform is
> effectively dead.  I'm using a circa-2004 Palm Treo; I suppose I could
> upgrade to a Centro (2008) or a Treo 680 (2006, available from Tiger
> Direct these days).  Near bulletproof, by now, but newer models aren't
> compatible with anything meaningful on Linux.

My palm Tungsten-E never did sync properly with linux, and is the main
reason I stopped using it.

> - I can dump data off a BlackBerry using Barry, but I don't think I
> can push data onto it.
> - I don't think Android syncs against anything meaningful on Linux...

But that might be fixable I imagine.

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