December 2008 Archives

I’m still a little miffed I can’t sync my Centro with my KDE PIM suite, but I did just today find a reason to increase my love for the Fedora Project.

With previous versions of Fedora (and RHEL/CentOS), I’ve had to manually build some Perl modules like DBIx::Class and Catalyst. Lo and behold, there exists a handy-dandy perl-DBIx-Class package in the standard Fedora repositories.

What a complete and awesome joy it was to watch perl-DBIx-Class download and install along with the 45 or so dependencies it required. It’s so nice to not have to build that manually with cpan2rpm anymore!

I've been pretty happy with Fedora 10... until last night. That's when I hooked up my Palm Centro and tried to sync it with the kdepim apps.

It seems the usually-reliable kpilot has been replaced with a synchronization system based on opensync. I only wish it worked half as well as kpilot did.

So, I am at a crossroads, of sorts. I can either roll back to Fedora 8 and run KDE 3.5 where kpilot works nicely or I can get involved with the opensync.org folks and get the Palm synchronization code fixed/finished.