[Gllug] Linux gripes help!!

[David Myers]

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.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Branden
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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!


HELP ---- :(




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