Getting my wife to switch to Fedora

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Chip Lueck wrote:

>I'm in the process of weaning my wife from her M$ addiction (I'm
>already a Linux geek, running FC3, fully updated).
>
>She's ok with pretty much every aspect of Fedora, and the various
>productivity applications she needs (Open Office, JPilot, Thunderbird,
>etc.)
>
>There are only two things she relies on that I can't find a suitable
>alternative for:  She uses Documents to Go to sync documents with her
>Palm, and PDA Safe to store private information securely on the Palm. 
>Both of these applications are combination Palm App/Desktop App, but
>the desktop app for each is Windoze only.    I haven't tried either of
>them with wine yet, as I'm I hoping there is some Linux alternative.
>
>Is there anyone out there who knows of an adequate replacement for
>either of these tools, or has gotten them to work under Fedora?
>
>For those interested, I started the weaning process by moving all her
>"My Documents" in the Windoze world to her home dir on my Fedora box. 
>I changed the pointer of her My Documents from her local hard drive to
>a Samba-mount.    Once she was used to her documents being in a
>different place, I gave her a CD to boot from.  This CD will boot her
>machine as a thin client (ltsp/etherboot) to have a session on my FC3
>box.  This has been helpful so she can immerse herself in the new
>world, but still have her safety blanket at her fingertips, and I
>didn't have to make her machine dual-boot.
>
>We're at the point now where she only uses her safety blanket for
>Palm-related stuff.  I'm ready to get her a new machine and her own
>fresh Fedora installation, but the two Palm apps are the only stopping
>point.
>
>  
>
Man! congratulations on moving your wife to Fedora!!

As for the apps... Hmm... I don't know I was looking for those myself 
for my own palm, but never found anything, even resorted to bug Pal.com 
to support Linux since they already support Mac OSX, their answer was 
clear: No, and we'll never will... <joke>Maybe when we dominate the 
world they will</joke>... Anyway, I tried to run them under Wine, but 
they rely too tightly in the system's way of using the hotsync through 
either the serial or USB ports, so even though the app ran, I could not 
access the palm device... It was not seen.