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Developer(s)
  
Judd Montgomery

Written in
  
GTK+

Initial release
  
0.90a – June 23, 1999

Operating system
  
Unix-like, Linux

Stable release
  
1.8.2 / May 25, 2014 (2014-05-25)

Repository
  
github.com/juddmon/jpilot

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. It is released under the GNU GPL, version 2.

Contents

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 or Gnome-Pilot.

Features

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

    • Requirements

  • Before J-Pilot working, users should install Pilot-link 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.

    • References

    J-Pilot Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA