Windows Mobile + Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon'

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' came out today, the latest and greatest linux distro ;)

I haven't downloaded and installed it yet, but I wondered if anybody had much experience of hooking up WinMo devices to Linux, and in particular Ubuntu.

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

[Guest Subliminal Aura]

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' came out today, the latest and greatest linux distro ;)

I haven't downloaded and installed it yet, but I wondered if anybody had much experience of hooking up WinMo devices to Linux, and in particular Ubuntu.

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

Thumbs up : didn't know it was out today - I'll trigger a download from home.

Hooking up is probably the easy bit - I spent a lot of time looking at the viablilty of it all and it was just not ready for my liking :( IF ONLY !

My mind is a blank now but take a look at ksync and synce ring a bell but as I said thats the easy bit but keeping your data in sync with windows and linux is tricky if not possible at the moment.

First day releases are usually slow so I've queued up a torrent at home :

http://www.mininova.org/search/ubuntu+7.10/seeds

Edited October 18, 2007 by Subliminal Aura

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I've ugpraded one of my servers already ;)

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[Guest Subliminal Aura]

I've ugpraded one of my servers already :(

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EEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewww riskkkaAY

You do realise that this is a mission critical service you are offering here dont you ? ;)

ps have you tried Kubuntu ? Its probably your best bet in trying to activesync with linux.

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I haven't upgraded THIS server! :-D

Not used Kubuntu, no...

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[Guest kurtfhouse]

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' came out today, the latest and greatest linux distro ;)

I haven't downloaded and installed it yet, but I wondered if anybody had much experience of hooking up WinMo devices to Linux, and in particular Ubuntu.

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

If there is a way of making it work I'd love to know :(

I have just been using XP via virtualbox

I haven't tried Gutsy yet I'm having problems with the live CD, I've just installed Fedora 8 Test 3 and I have to say I'm quite impressed :D

[Guest nuttyphilt]

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' came out today, the latest and greatest linux distro ;)

I haven't downloaded and installed it yet, but I wondered if anybody had much experience of hooking up WinMo devices to Linux, and in particular Ubuntu.

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

I've just installed it and am pretty impressed. I'd like to find a decent way of syncing too because I think that's the only thing I'm missing and sadly it's quite an important bit...

[Guest Subliminal Aura]

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

TBH I wouldn't task this to my worst enemy, and Paul is such a nice chap ;)

Well I think it would be valuable to do nontheless but it won't be painless :|

I still think PIM management on linux is years behind.

[Guest Mr.Clark]

I take it that installing ActiveSync with Wine is too easy? ;)

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Well, do you want to do that or do you want native sync, to, say, Evolution?

Here's a little teaser... the question is do I post my progress so far (which is pretty good) and we refine it as a group, or not bother?

;)

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[Guest Kimbie]

I am looking at moving to Linux for some time now and the lack of sync has always been a bug bear, however with services like mail2web offering online exchange accounts and gmail now doing IMAP, would be so cool if Google gave exchange style access to us ;)

So I would be happy to give this a go.

In relation to if you should post a guide, I would say sure post it so we can all see it and see if any of us can improve on it at all

Kimbie

[Guest nuttyphilt]

I'm keen to go to Ubuntu full time too, but the lack of sync is also putting me off...

If I could code then I would offer to help out, but I'm quite happy to be a tester. ;)

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

It's not so much coding, more finding your way around Linux ;)

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[Guest Bittermormon]

Ubuntu 7.10 'Gutsy Gibbon' came out today, the latest and greatest linux distro ;)

I haven't downloaded and installed it yet, but I wondered if anybody had much experience of hooking up WinMo devices to Linux, and in particular Ubuntu.

Is it worth creating a guide to live on MoDaCo?

I would love a guide on this topic. I would like to help but do not know much of Linux. I have played with Fiesty,but never got sync to work with my devices.

[Guest Dr Who]

I would love a guide on this topic. I would like to help but do not know much of Linux. I have played with Fiesty,but never got sync to work with my devices.

Have they sorted out the X-server yet? I tried installing 7.04 on my laptop, which I use outputting to an external monitor at work, and gave up after a week or two of wanting to smash my head between two bricks! It was impossible to get it to output at anything other than the laptops main panel res and this was after recruiting a friend of mine who is a bit of a Debian wizard. Otherwise it was soooo much better than 6.x version I tried previously. Should be getting a new laptop soon so might give it another try. By the way Paul, do you have OS X, Vista and Ubuntu running on the same laptop/desktop?

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

Yes, I have OSx as my main OS, and Ubuntu Gutsy Desktop, Ubuntu Gutsy Server and Windows Vista Business all in VMware VMs.

I can actually run them all at the same time, not that I really want to ;)

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[Guest Howiehowie93]

Hey guys

this is a great thread and idea!

I've been using the previous vesion of Ubuntu (7.04 Fiesty) since April and had no success at all syncing my XDA Mini-S, using either SyncE or KSync. Active Sync dosent work under WINE or Crossover office either.

I have a TyTn II now and not even bothered to hook it up to the linux box.

Look forward to seeing progress and I dont mind being a tester either.

regards

Howie

[Guest davidingram]

Hi all, just joined the forum, my first post. I just got Gutsy, love it, upgraded from Feisty, and I also have an HTC TyTN II (like the member just above me on this post), so, I'll be watching this thread closely. I use XP on my main/everyday laptop, and have Ubuntu (Gutsy) on a second laptop, just waiting for the day that I can wipe WIndows from my life!!!

Like others here, the PDA (WIndows Mobile) sync is the last piece of the puzzle for me. I'm no programmer, so I rely on the likes of the smart people in places like this to piece together the bits for us. Thanks everyone who is working on this one, I'll keep reading.

David

[Guest ianbennett]

So, Paul, any chance you could post on what you have managed to get working so far, and how you did it?

I had a machine running Feisty until a few weeks ago, then I wiped it out and put Windows back on. The inability to sync or even access my Windows Mobile devices was one of the drivers behind this decision. I don't desperately need to sync PIM or email information, as I use a hosted Exchange server, but it would have been useful to copy/sync files. You're obviously well on the way to being able to do that, judging by your screenshot.

Come on, spill the beans! ;)

Ian

[Guest Paul (MVP)]

I managed to get it to see the device, and copy files between the two. Sadly I couldn't get sync working. Sounds like it'd be OK for you tho, so i'll dig out my steps and post here! Watch this space...

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[Guest zeonlive]

hi paul . have you been able to figure out how you accessed your smartphone from ubuntu? i tried wm5storage but its not great for large files - the phone just hangs. im using a htc s310. well anyway let me know if you remember how you did it. thanks

[Guest bongo_king]

hi paul . have you been able to figure out how you accessed your smartphone from ubuntu? i tried wm5storage but its not great for large files - the phone just hangs. im using a htc s310. well anyway let me know if you remember how you did it. thanks

Yeah - what happened? I was gearing up to get some info & then the topic just trailed off....

Edited March 19, 2008 by bongo_king

[Guest lhommesc]

I'd also lend a hand here. I'd like to see a good how-to.