[Gllug] Linux gripes help!!

[Richard Cohen]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, David Myers wrote:

> Branden Faulls wrote:
> >
> > David Myers wrote:
> > >
> > > 1) I use a palm pilot, a Vx to be precise! and would love to be able to
> > > ditch windows and hotsync to my linux desktop. anyone else got one to
> > > work??
> >
> > I use J-Pilot for all my gui palm needs.  It has a decent interface that
> > clones the Palm desktop fairly well.  It's a bit uglier, but
> > functionally similar.
> >
> >   For installation and more complex needs I suggest you pick up
> > pilot-tools, a command line suite that'll do most anything you like.
> > I've written a few scripts to automagically gather all the TV or weather
> > listings into a *.pdb .  These use pilot-tools.

Jpilot from www.jpilot.org
Pilot-link from www.pilot-link.org - except I can't get a response from this
right now :-(

> > > 3) as well as using nestcape (I don't know what version, probably 4.x),
> > > I also use their composer for mail and newsgroups, what other choices do
> > > I have that have a "similar" look and feel but greater funcionality - i
> > > seem unable to set the preferences to auto delete some of the messages
> > > that i would like it to! or filter other stuff to the correct places, am
> > > I missing something or is it a netscpe thing!?
> >
> > If you like Nutscrape Navigator, then just go directly to Mozilla, do
> > not pass go, do not collect 200 packages.  Good look and feel,
> > completely integrated mail, news, browser environment, and totally
> > standards compliant. This is good for new users of Linux as it removes
> > the need to set up sendmail/exim/postfix/etc for mail purposes.  Very
> > big app, so not for the low resource box. Provides all the usual,
> > simple, filtering.

Mozilla from www.mozilla.org

> > Branden
>
>
> Thanks for the help Branden, only one small problem .... where do I
> download the Mozilla suite and the pilot tools stuff??
>
> I've tried a search on google, and get lots of hits, but I can't tell at
> a glance wich ones have the downloads!

In general, trying the obvious is a good thing :-)

> HELP ---- :(

Cheers
Richard

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