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Ximian Desktop 2, Evolution Released

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the join-the-masses-grabbing-the-files dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ximian has released their long awaited Ximian Desktop 2, their popular Gnome-based desktop, and Evolution, their popular email client and calendar program. They can be found on the main Ftp server. You can also check their mirrors."

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  1. Re:Nuh uh by altp · · Score: 5, Informative

    Use the mirrors, its downloading fine for me.

    take off the ftp:// and the path and just give it the server when it lets you choose to use a different server in the installer.

    Altp.

  2. Source by riggwelter · · Score: 5, Informative

    I expect it's just an oversight, but as yet there are no source tarballs on either ftp.ximian.com or ftp.gnome.org (well, my local f.g.o mirror, can't get to the real thing at the mo...)

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    1. Re:Source by luge · · Score: 5, Informative

      Not quite an oversight; more like a serious fuckup on the mirror syncing that was only discovered very late last night by some very, very tired code monkeys. It'll be corrected once we have bandwidth again. [By fixed I mean 'we'll put out .srpms', since we aren't upstream and hence have never released tarballs.]

      What you really want anyway is http://patches.ximian.com, which still has some kinks (some missing patches, we can't quite tell why) but should have all the changes in much-easier-to-digest patch form.

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  3. Re:Debian? by opk · · Score: 5, Informative

    You won't. Ximian are dropping support for Debian.

    Though they will release the source so someone may decide to compile it and package it unofficially.

  4. For those looking to install it quickly... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Posted anonymously on purpose.

    PLEASE USE MIRRORS!!!

    1. Open a terminal window.
    2. Using the su command, become superuser (root).
    3. Type the following command or cut and paste it into your terminal:
    wget -q -O - http://go.ximian.com |sh

  5. Owned by gylle · · Score: 5, Informative

    Now there is good advise: Be brave, pipe the contents from an url posted on slashdot by Anonymous Coward directly to /bin/sh!

    Are you kidding?!

    1. Re:Owned by GC · · Score: 4, Informative

      NO.

      There are many DNS servers out there who are vulnerable to DNS poisoning and the go.ximian.com A record is a holy grail for that.

      Please ensure that you are getting the real go.ximian.com, by checking the record with dig.

      Like so:

      dig @gustavo.ximian.com go.ximian.com

      Anyone who doesn't do this deserves to get rooted.

  6. Re:"Popular" ? by afidel · · Score: 4, Informative

    My credentials are that I was the linux expert on the deskside support team that supports Cisco Systems. When Cisco decided to go with Exchange for internal reasons we started looking for a good linux solution. We needed to support not just email, but calandering as well because all calandering was thankfully being moved off of their previous "solution" (it sucked equally on all platforms). We could not use POP3 for email because it broke the model of some of the backend software that was being grafted around Exchange so it was either IMAP or MAPI, and when you add in the need for calendering support the only viable solution was Ximian connector+Evolution. Setting the default save option to MS formats makes sense in a mixed environment because then the user does not have to think about resaving the document before sending it to a collegue. Btw, this was for a couple thousand seats of linux desktops in a mixed Solaris/Win2k/RH environment.

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  7. Debian is *not* being dropped by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Debian is *not* being dropped. It's simply not supported *yet*.

    Ximian makes most it's money off of RedHat and SuSE so it's obvious they'll want to support those first. Once they get money from these distributions, they'll support other distributions. They used the same approach with the 1.x distribution. Read the "download page" if you want confirmation of this.