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Mitch Kapor Joins Ximian Board of Directors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adding-more-monkeys dept.

miguel writes: "Today we announced that Mitch Kapor has joined our Board of Directors. He is one of the co-founders of the EFF and Lotus (You can learn more about Mitch here.) In other news, I want to point out guys to our Latest Evolution beta which comes with SSL support (IMAP and SMTP), Pilot syncing and LDAP in the default build. The team at Ximian has been busy fixing every bug you guys have reported (feature requests will have to wait until 1.0 ships, we are in feature freeze now) and we are closing bugs faster that you can report them. What are you guys going to do about this huh? HUH?"

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  1. Previous Doubts... Lifted? by Brontosaurus+Jim · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've always been a little wary of Ximian... they seemed mostly talk and not enough action. Sure they had _some_ stuff, but it was never really up my alley.

    I have to say though, this time I think I might just start to like them. They seem, from reading the link, like they really care about what we have to say (even if it's not so nice some times ;) and are willing to listen.

    I guess this is YABOOS (Yet Another Benefit Of Open Source): The corporations that help out are by default less evil.

  2. Looks Great by XBL · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can it import messages and addresses from Mozilla mail?

    1. Re:Looks Great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yes, it can.
      Mozilla Mail uses a standard mbox format and evolution has had an imported for as long as they've had evolution packages.

  3. Evolution Progressing Well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Been using evolution for email for about two months now, and it's been very good. I would recommend it to anyone as the best email client available for Linux.

    As far as what we'll do about it...use it. I've two complaints: 1.) You can't set what font to use in html email messages, and 2.) No calendar server. If you could achieve MS Outlook scheduling/calendaring functionality or better, you would have the potential 'Killer' application for Linux that would allow offices to migrate away from MS...

  4. Re:does it work under KDE by rgmoore · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not a window manager issue. Evolution (and any other GNOME app) should run under KDE as long as you have all of the necessary libraries present. Despite all of the trolling between advocates of one desktop over the other, they actually interoperate pretty well. A GNOME app will still look like a GNOME app when run under KDE (and vice versa) which offends some people's aesthetic sense, but they should operate just fine.

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    There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.

  5. Love it! by Starky · · Score: 5, Insightful
    While there are strong sentiments about the desktop choices, it is important to the Linux community that there is a choice. I think in the long run, it will be a positive thing.


    I think KDE is fantastic, but I simply prefer GNOME. I've been watching GNOME make incredible strides in the time that it's been around, and I think as a GNOME user I have alot to look forward to.


    I have also been using the Ximian desktop at home, and I think they've put out a great product. (I actually forked over $29.95 to Ximian because I valued their product so much I thought it worthwhile to purchase it.) Red Carpet has worked flawlessly for me so far. While I still like to build certain things (Apache, Perl, etc.) myself, it saves me a good deal of time not having to worry about keeping my packages up to date. Evolution still has some bugs, but it's getting more solid literally every day. I was happy to fork over some money to Ximian and I'll continue to do so as they improve their product.


    I know that there are going to be Debian users telling me I can get Red Carpet for free via apt-get, and they are right. I know there are folks who consider KDE the superior desktop, and they've got alot of good points.


    However, I prefer Red Hat, Ximian, and GNOME, and Ximian has put out the right product for my preferences, and I am happy to pay for it confident that they will use the money not only to enhance their product, but to create things that will give back to the community as well.


    So I say keep up the good work, Ximian, from a very satisfied user.

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    -- My choice of computing platform is a symbol of my individuality and belief in personal freedom.
  6. Re:KDE integration -- INTERESTING?? HAHA by fault0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think that he was trying to say that most _users_ use KDE, which is probably true(increasingly true).

    but then again, everyone stop bringing up KDE, this story is bout evolution =P

  7. Re:Credit where it is due by ryantate · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Pretty much word for word from this article.

    Thanks. Would only that the author of the original post had seen fit to credit, with a simple link or even simpler "lifted from Red Herring" attribution, the original work by Deborah Claymon.

    Not that the post author was trying to pass off the article as his own -- the line (For more on Mr. Barlow,see "What Does John Perry Barlow Do?,"March 1998) would surely have been deleted were that the case -- but it would be nice to show some appreciation for the person who researched this piece and for the site that provides it completely free of charge.

  8. Re:OverHyped Press Releases by benjj · · Score: 2, Insightful

    errr... but trolltech are not a desktop company?