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Evolution Bug-Hunt!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-cuz-ya-can't-code-doesn't-mean-ya-can't-help dept.

Matt Beale writes "Ximian is slated to release Evolution (a mail client for Gnome/Linux) by October 1st. In preperation, they are offering awards for finding bugs in Evolution! A important open project to participate in, AND i can win a palm VII, sweet!" My bug was that it kept crashing ;) October release is ambitious but very cool.

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  1. Ximian and Distribution Support by stcanard · · Score: 1, Troll

    In all honesty, there are three things that Ximian needs to do quite quickly in order to get a wider distribution:

    1. Support more than Red Hat

    2. Support more then Red Hat

    3. Well, you get the idea

    I was hooked as a user of Ximian Gnome for some time, and even went through the effort of downloading and compiling Evolution. Then they stopped making builds that would work on Suse 7.x. After getting frustrated waiting ("any time now") I gave up and installed KDE to see how it had come along. Now Ximian is really going to have to do something special to get me to go back.

    Watching the Suse mailing lists, I'm not the only on in this situation. Outside of North America (and even inside if I'm any indication) Suse is quite heavily used -- it is definitely not a good idea to alienate a potentially large user base

  2. NO! by Artemis+Entreri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Matt Beale writes "Ximian is slated to release Evolution (a mail client for Gnome/Linux) by October 1st. In preperation, they are offering awards for finding bugs in Evolution! A important open project to participate in, AND i can win a palm VII, sweet!" My bug was that it kept crashing ;) October release is ambitious but very cool.

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    NO!!!! IT IS NOT VERY COOL! BECAUSE GNOME SUCKS JUST LIKE ROB MALDA SUCKS MY HAIRY BALLS!!!!!