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Evolution 1.0 Beta 1 Released

Posted by michael on from the ...and-the-kitchen-sink dept.

battery841 writes: "Evolution 1.0 Beta 1 has been released. An announcement has been released. The RPMs and tarballs can be downloaded from Ximian. This is the first beta release, and a major step to the much awaited 1.0 release." The last time I tried Evolution it was very buggy, but that was a long time ago - time to give it another try.

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  1. Evolution buggy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5

    The last time I tried Evolution it was very buggy

    Case in point: George "Dubya" Bush
    *rim shot*

  2. Wait a second... by Masem · · Score: 5

    You mean that crappy movie that was in the theaters was only a 'beta'? I want my 8 bucks back!
    </joke>

    --
    "Pinky, you've left the lens cap of your mind on again." - P&TB
    "I can see my house from here!" - ST:
  3. Re:Looks good, needs SIMAP/SSMTP support by miguel · · Score: 5

    Evolution supports using SSL over IMAP, SMTP and POP3 on top of many others.

    The camel library from Evolution is the most advanced mail library in existance right now. The API was inspired by the JavaMail design, but it has been extended and improved to deal with many real world situations that JavaMail did not cope back in the day.

  4. For a list of features and a terse introduction by miguel · · Score: 5
    We have put together a list of the major features of Evolution.

    You can also read an functional overview of Evolution and what it has to offer.

    Since Evolution is not feature frozen, we are polishing the GUI and killing all bugs that we have reported so far, you can help by going to the developers page and learn about how to report bugs on Evolution or how to send your favorite patch and improvement.

    You can get Evolution using Red Carpet (that is how I installed it myself a few minutes ago). Select the `Ximian Preview' channel and then select Evolution, all the required software will be installed for you.

    Finally, now that I am pasting URLs, I would like to say that on the preview channel you can also find the latest two great contributions of Ximian to GNOME (plug, plug). The Ximian Setup Tools is there for people to test (ie, unified System Administration across Unix systems, with a nice and friendly GNOME UI). The technology behind it is extremely nice. And we are also previewing the Metatheme selector, which allows you to change all the theme setting across the board in your desktop.

    Love,
    Miguel.

  5. Don't forget! by nakaduct · · Score: 5

    Munitions regulations forbid exporting this software to Kansas.

  6. Evolution may be buggy.... by kypper · · Score: 5
    but creationism has so many holes it ain't funny.

    ...and that one has been around for millenia.



    Screw 3...