[PLUG] Palm syncing

[Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net>]

What are any of you using these days for Palm syncing?

I was doing fine when I had Red Hat 7.3 syncing with my Palm IIIc
(serial port) via the pilot-link conduits, and using jpilot on the desktop.

Lately, I've been using Ubuntu on the desktop and have been trying to
sync my USB Clie and haven't been satisfied with the results.

Gnome-pilot comes pre-installed with conduits to Evolution.  IMO,
Evolution is a pig.  As an Outlook substitute, it includes many of
outlook's annoyances as well as its functionality.  It was munging my
addresses and I don't know if it was gnome-pilot or the Evolution
conduits to blame. Fortunately, I have good back ups on the Clie's
memory stick.

I installed pilot-link, disabled gnome-pilot, and it sort of works, but
the handheld seems pick a different USB port each sync and the sync
never seems to complete without a loss of connection.  A complaint about
jpilot is that I have to have the full app running to use the alarms or
access the data.  (As Evolution is Ubuntu's default PIM and email
program, you can put little look up apps for appointments and addresses
in the panel)

Is anyone using the Kpilot conduits with Kontact?  What are your
experiences?

Any other recommendations?

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