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Novell to port Evolution to Windows

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the good-for-them dept.

Gladiat0r writes "Nat Friedman blogged on Planet Gnome today that Novell has hired Tor Lillqvist (of Gimp for Windows fame) to help Fredrik Hedberg port Beagle to Windows, and after that his main task is to port Evolution to Windows."

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  1. How about making evolution work on Linux first by anewsome · · Score: 0, Troll
    This is about the funniest post I've seen, considering that evolution still doesn't work worth a damn on Linux. I have Fedora Core 3 and the Evolution program is flaky at best. The native exchange connector stability is laughable and if the program can run for more than a little while without crashing, then it's a big surprise. This look familiar:
    The Application "evolution-alarm-notify" has quit unexpectedly.

    You can inform the developers of what happened to help them fix it. Or you can restart the application right now.
    It does to me, because this is what I see everytime I start evolution. This also means none of the calendar notifications work. You also need a whole lot of motivation to get the bug report submitted, since it is so dang complicated. All in all, what I would call a mess. The good news is the Windows guys will be able to experience this mess on their platform soon. Then again, they are used to crashing and unstable apps.