Re: Re: Zaurus-general Digest, Vol 9, Issue 6

>From Grant Edwards on Saturday, 13 December, 2003:
>>>Sorry for the tone of my post.  It seemed like such a
>>>fundamental requirement for mobile Wifi (the main reason I
>>>bought a Z), that I was completely stunned when it went away in
>>>1.0. If noboby was working on profile support, I thought I
>>>might. It would give me a good excuse to learn Qt.
>> That would be awesome.  The lack of such a networking feature
>> would keep me from OZ/Opie.
>> Anyone know how the PIM apps stack up on the most recent
>> OZ/Opie versus the Sharp 3.10 ROM?
>The apps themselves seem quite nice.

That was my impression, but I only kept it on for a little while.

>> Do they sync to Linux,
>Almost.

hmm

>> and how?
>
> 1) Opie will sync with QTopia Desktop, but QTD has bugs in the
>    timezone handling code, so calendar events are all shifted.
>    I guess the developers of QTD all lived in the GMT
>    timezone.
>
> 2) There are reports that kitchensync will sync Opie PIM data
>    to KDE PIM apps, but it sure didn't work for me (I lost 
>    everything in my calendar -- partially because the "backup"
>    funciton in QTD doesn't work).
>
> 3) Multisync has plugins for both Opie and Evolution, but I've
>    run into a couple minor problems there as well (which are
>    being worked on).  
>
>It looked to me like #3 is the best option at this point.
>    
>> Sharp did itself a huge disservice by not providing Sync
>> abilities to Linux users (who would be its most loyal
>> fanbase).
>Loyal though too small in numbers for Sharp to care about.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I don't see firm numbers on it.
  One thing that keeps going through my head is why a Windows user
  would go with oddball Sharp running embedded Linux, when Palm and
  especially PocketPC have many more apps and much wider adoption
  (and cheaper prices).
It'd be interesting to see the actual numbers on this.

>>>> The Z can be used for mobile network access.  The requirement
>>>> to enter ESSIDs and WEP keys is allocated to the human.  The Z
>>>> does the hard part. Some folks have posted scripts on
>>>> http://zaurus.com/dev/board/ which use opie-sh to help
>>>> switching between network setups. Do the research.
>> >Thanks I'll look into it.
>> If you could make it go, I'd give you a dollar.  :)
>I probably won't have time to mess with it until after we move
>into new offices at the end of the year.

Is fine; 3.10 is great except not being able to sync to Linux.
"Whenever" is quite alright.  :)

-Joseph
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