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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. No time to post.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    download now. Troll later.

  2. 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.

  3. Yes, but by jkrise · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Does SCO certify that this does not include source from MS Outlook, leaked by HP :-) ?

    2. Why use a client that apes Outlook behavior, when better faster thinner clients exist.

    3. How much RAM does Evolution need now, for decent response? Last I tried on my 64MB RAM system, it took 72 seconds to load. About 16 seconds slower than Outlook. And 60 seconds slower than Mozilla mail.

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  4. 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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  5. Progress by js995 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    With all that has been said on the issue of GUI's on Linux, its great to see consistently improved releases across the board. Ximian 2 looks great, and the closely tied integration of OpenOffice is the kind of thing that will probably be appealing to those looking to roll Linux out to corporate desktops. Seems to be the 1.0 branch though, which is a shame since there are a lot of useful enhancements in the 1.1 series.

  6. 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.

  7. 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?!

  8. Oh Slashdot, Slashdot, Slashdot.... by tolan-b · · Score: 5, Funny

    Bastards! My download was running sweet at about 100KB/s when this story went up... Now it's on about 8KB/s :/

  9. Re:Easy to remove? by luge · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's never going to be easy to just remove 200+ packages, so no, you can't just return to a pristine distro. [And anyone who thinks we should is welcome to show us how and demonstrate with an installation of similar complexity. :) But we have gone to a great deal of effort to match our versions, epochs, and package names with those of the distro so that distro upgrades to the next revision of the distro should go more smoothly than it did with XG1.4.

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  10. 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.