Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 17th Mar 2008 21:20 UTC, submitted by AdamW
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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2007-09-06
With opensync, this doesn't just open up winCE. OpenSync has a huge list of already supported hardware including some PalmOS devices. I have to go back and check the project site to see if the Nokia N8#0 is supported but in that case, I can always stick with my rsync setup or wire it directly into my groupware server.
Thanks, Mandriva team. Your putting out a great distribution for us "gotta be bleeding edge" types. I may be looking at Debian on several VMs but I haven't yet found a compelling reason to move away from Mandriva as my host OS. An update to Bastilli wouldn't hurt, the last verion it seems to support is a few releases back. Either way, I can't wait for the 2008.1 public release in the second week of April.
(unrelated sidenote: I confirmed that flashdrives mounted through KDE will consistantly mount to the same directory under /media based on partition label. Flashdrives in the machine at boot still seem to mount under /media based on device name rather than partition label. If this is still the case with 2008.1, I'll learn how to fill out a proper bug report in the tracker.)