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J-Pilot is an open source

Open source

The term open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials. Some consider open source a philosophy, others consider it a pragmatic methodology...

GTK+

GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...

-based desktop organizer for Unix-like

Unix-like

A Unix-like operating system is one that behaves in a manner similar to a Unix system, while not necessarily conforming to or being certified to any version of the Single UNIX Specification....

systems written by Judd Montgomery, designed to work with Palm OS

Palm OS

Palm OS is a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants in 1996. Palm OS is designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management...

-based handheld PDAs. It uses the pilot-link

Pilot-link

pilot-link is a library of utilities for connecting to and synchronising with Palm OS-based PDAs on Unix and Unix-based operating systems. It uses a set of 'conduits' for the exchange of information from different Palm applications....

libraries to communicate with Palm devices. It is released under the GNU GPL, version 2.

Linux support

Palm does not provide a version of the software for Linux operating system, nor do they officially support the ones developed by third parties such as J-Pilot, Gnome-Pilot.

Summary of Features

Third-party Application Support
Plugin Support
Import and Export Features
Supports Palm Application Features
Supports Datebook
Datebook
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, Address
Address
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, To Do List, and Memo
Memo
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Pad
Supports the newer Contacts and Memos (Calendar
Calendar
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and Tasks not yet)

Requirements

Before J-Pilot
J-Pilot
J-Pilot is an open source GTK+-based desktop organizer for Unix-like systems written by Judd Montgomery, designed to work with Palm OS-based handheld PDAs. It uses the pilot-link libraries to communicate with Palm devices...

working, users should install Pilot-link
Pilot-link
pilot-link is a library of utilities for connecting to and synchronising with Palm OS-based PDAs on Unix and Unix-based operating systems. It uses a set of 'conduits' for the exchange of information from different Palm applications....

and get the newest version available.
Users must have GTK+version greater than 1.2.0 installed and also need to gtk-devel rpms, or packages installed to build from source.

Linux support

Summary of Features

Requirements

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