[TriLUG] Evolution gets the thumbs up

[Jon Carnes]

Alright, with all this praise for evolution floating around on the list,
I finally had to try it.  After all it comes in the default install with
Mandrake...

OK, so I love it!  There are you happy?

I've been a devout lover of Kmail for over a year now (it works just
like Outlook Express...), and I thought that was all I would ever want
in an email program - but I have to say, the auto-spell checking as you
type is a real winner!  Plus the formating right out of the box is
wonderful.

The feel is a little "exchange-ish" but not in a bad way.  The amazing
part is that all the extra buzzes and whistles don't seem to be slowing
down the basic functionality (and I'm running this on a 300Mhz system).
I hate to say it, but it really is a killer app.

Jon

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On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 20:58, Kevin Sonney wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 19:15, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> > Evolution is part of the Ximian desktop.  www.ximian.com
> > Downloading from them can be very difficult to install unless you go
> > with there Ximian desktop (oh yeah, ximian is an X app, not command
> > line).  Best bet to get a copy of Evolution for your computer would be
> > to go to www.rpmfind.net (or your preferred package management, or look
> > for the tars) and use one someone else has setup against your distro. 
> 
> If your distro doesn't include gnome/evolution, then you probably want
> Ximian. However, it should be noted that Ximian doesn't play nice with
> all distros, and once you start using their package management,
> reverting to your prior system is a pain.
> 
> (pain as in, if you use Red Hat, you use Ximian Red Carpet, because
> up2date will find all kinds of borked depends).
> 
> Fortunately, Evolution is, as stated below, included in Red Hat Linux
> 7.3,  Mandrake 8.x, and AFAIK, Debian GNU/Linux.
> 
> Gnome2 is also in the public Red Hat beta (null). Gnome 2 is pretty.
> Metacity rocks. 
> 
> > others).  It's nice, I like it even more than Eudora Pro, it helped make
> > the final cut to linux only for me.
> 
> Evolutions was one of the "killer apps" that Linux needed, IMHO, to gain
> wider acceptance. I had used every GUI mail app I could find, and *NONE*
> were as good, IMHO, as Pegasus Mail, Eudora, or, for that matter,
> Outlook Express - until Evolution.
> 
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