I don't have pilot-link. Do I need it?
I know nothing about palm pilots. I've never owned one, and never used one. I spent 3 minutes Googling and found numerous references to the requirement that pilot-link be installed & functional before you can access a palm pilot in Linux. Of course about 1 of those three minutes was trying to figure out what the heck a 'Zaire' was, until i realized that you meant Zire. For your edification:
http://snovae.in2p3.fr/ycopin/soft/zire.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/62164
http://www.slac.com/pilone/kpilot_home/hardware.html
and last, but certainly not least, the official jpilot documentation where pilot-link is explicitly specified as a prerequisite:
http://www.henrikbecker.mynetcologne.de/jpilot/jpilot-manual-en-2.html#ss2.1
I downloaded Ximian Evolution. It won't work with the palm because I need some gnome tools.
Grrr....
Oh well, I will just have to not use my palm for a few months/years longer. I am getting fond of pcal. I will not bother with this problem anymore. I have at least 30 hours of my time invested, all wasted.
Perhaps it wouldn't have been had you spent a few minutes reading the documentation.
I'll skip my usual rant. Not worth it. But, its worth noting in passing that linux developers wrote devfs without getting any input from me. I would have told them to make all handhelds plug and play with linux before they fix something that wasn't broken. That is, if they are serious about getting linux on the desktop, which apparently they are not. I would never recommend linux to the average user because of shortcomings like this. This is a show stopper.
No. Not reading documentation is the show stopper. PEBCAK.
It is hard not to get the impression that linux is a place where adolescents like to play. For example, going though the warehouse at Lindows, I noted that there were pages of mp3 players and cd rippers. But, there are only two office suites. One staroffice, which came out of a commercial background and was a free gift (charity) to the opensource movement and is a serious package. The other is koffice, the opensource answer to MS. I have never found Koffice useful. Don't linux advocates get worried ?
Only about FUD mongers. Some people deserve windoze.
Bill Gates must sleep well at night.
i'm sure he does.
Joel
P.S. This wasn't the rant. I erased that.
you sure fooled me.
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