The upcoming Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring release will boast the easiest ever support for synchronizing with Windows Mobile 5 and 6 devices in any distribution. The adventurous can already try out the support in the current 2008 Spring pre-release repositories, by following the instructions here. Mandriva has uploaded a video demonstrating how easy it is to synchronize with a Windows Mobile 6 device right out of the box with Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring. Support is included for synchronizing with both KDE (KDE PIM) and GNOME (Evolution). Similarly easy synchronization is also possible with many Nokia phones and with Blackberry devices.
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Member since:2005-07-06
worknman: the point is that with MDV from 2008 Spring you don't have to go through all that stuff, that's the stuff I had to go through to fix it in the packages so no-one *else* has to go through it. =)
It would indeed be nice for something to pop up and offer to install the metapackage when you plugged in an appropriate device. This is probably too big a thing to get into 2008 Spring, but I had already thought of it and we'll look at getting it into 2009.
Member since:2005-11-13
Well, even if it doesn't have the ability to install the meta packages, it should at least be smart enough to tell the user, "Hey, you just plugged something in.. I don't know what this device is, but you should go to www.whatever to see if we have any packages/drivers available for this device." Obviously, I have no idea how these things work so I'm generalizing, but you get the idea 
Just give the user some sort of idea about what they need to do or where to go in order to get more information. Because, as I said before, these devices don't come with CD-ROMs or quick start manuals for Linux, so people need all the help they can get.
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2005-11-13
Wow, that sounds like a pain in the ass. Even with the packages making it easy in Mandriva, there's probably going to be nothing in the phone's manual telling people using Linux how to do that, so I would hope that when you plugged in the phone without any of these packages installed, there would be at least something popping up, informing users what they need to do.
I don't think I would ever go through what you just said you did. I'm getting too old for that sh*t