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Kroupware Komplete

Posted by michael on from the enough-with-the-k-jokes-already dept.

sorinm writes "The three companies behind the Kroupware Project (Erfrakon, Intevation and Klarälvdalens Datakonsult) announced its successful completion today. This new groupware approach using only Free Software is now available in stable versions under the Kolab brand name. Commercial support on an individual basis is already offered with further support options to come."

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  1. Re:Kolab and Kontact, I'm confused. by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There's a lot of crufty stuff in the KDE app-base. There's the KDE media player, NOATUN (Not-run , that's what I always think) some ARTS stuff for sound server (like esd, and others couldnt have fit here) and other basic bitmap apps.

    They could have made Gimp a KDE program and forget about all other KDE gfx programs. It already can read a crapload of gfx types, so it's just a gtk=>kde3 port away.

    Noatun is a joke. I mean, a SERIOUS JOKE. The few things I'm able to run in it (like say, standard MPEG1 streams) either lags to hell, or promptly crashes. I usually go and install XINE, OGLE, and Mplayer for all my video viewing needs.

    And about ARTS, other than network transparency (which is depreciated with the new SMB-UNIX extensions which allow you to mount /dev nodes over networks) it's yet another thing that eats up cpu time and does little. Yeah, it provides an archetchure but who wants to use it? It ties your app to kde only. Yuk.

    The PIM group of apps seem pretty nice, but dont flow together well. Why did they create their own set of office "things" that dont work with anything else (yeah, I know writing a module is trivial). Why not plug in OO instead? It'd be easier that way.

    Yeah, Kruft bothers me, but at least it works (kde3 doesnt crash as much as windows....). Still, kde3 goes down sometimes with a sig 11.

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