What I miss most in the N900 is decent Linux support such as the PC Suite and the inherent ability to sync calendar, contacts and memos with my local Linux box.

Browsing through the talks here, I barely find this issue mentioned, so I thought to make a separate thread for it.

Paai

All in good time mate - there are means and ways of doing this although a little fiddly but definitely possible.

I'm sure that you could rsync the contacts, calendar and memos file to your linux box, and then your linux box can extract the contents of all of these files and somehow sync them.

When we are talking about Linux then answer probably will be "You can rsync your stuff with your own custom made Bash script at anytime over ssh" :|

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too slow...

'rsync' of course is not an application for syncing calendar and contact data, as it only transfers complete files. So any home grown solution would mean that I manually have to export the N900 contacts to the vcf format, send the vcf to the Linuxbox, execute a script to dissect .vcf files or whatever, dovetail the changes into a new .vcf file and send the result back to the N900.
Then I would have to start the N900 contacts program again to manually import the vcf file into the N900 format.

Now if the format of the N900 contacts and calendar files were documented somewhere I would perhaps go and try to write such a script, but a solution as above, where I still would need to import and export manually, does not appeal to me.

There's SyncEvolution in extras-devel, which aims to allow syncing the N900 with any SyncML server. There's a few open source ones out there - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SyncML for a list of options.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Won't work for straight syncing with a Linuxbox.

Now if only somebody could tell me how the data in .osso-abook/db
are formatted...