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Columba 1.0 "Holy Moly" Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the now-strongbadia-will-have-to-update-again dept.

Frederik Dietz writes to tell us that after three years of hard developement Columba 1.0, codename "Holy Moly!" is ready for general consumption. Columba is an email client written in Java that boasts a 'user-friendly graphical interface with wizards and internationalization support.' Slashdot covered an interview with the Columba team earlier this year.

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  1. Re:Typo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    A typo on slashdot?! Holy Moly!

  2. Re:the question I have by ScrewMaster · · Score: 2, Funny

    Uh, well ... it's written in Java you see, and, uh well ...

    Short answer: I dunno.

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    The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
  3. and their page says... by Ilgaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's been 3 years full of sacrifices, nurturing of beer bellies, kaput relationships, horrible startup images, embarassing typos

  4. Re:3 years by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
    they invested 3 years of their life into the development of this project that alone deserves credit
    3 years, hah that's nothing. Just wait until Duke Nukem Forever comes out.
  5. Hey, Cool! by RAMMS+EIN · · Score: 4, Funny

    So how much do I need to pay to get my software advertised on Slashdot?

    - mailvisa: simple bayesian spam filter in Ruby (beats most filters in Debian w.r.t. performance, precission, recall, and memory usage)

    - logalize :analyzer for Apache log files, written in Perl. Simple, so it's easy to customize.

    - wake: remotely wake up machines using wake-on-lan magic packets (written in Perl).

    - detach: start commands detached from the terminal (keeps them from dying when the terminal exits)

    - chrootexec: run commands inside a chroot jail, as a normal user.

    - Perlcookies: random quotes from fortunes files (nice for sigs), but much smaller than the fortune package. Written in Perl.

    More on my website, and many more on my harddisk, but these are the more useful ones. While you're at it, take a look at my esasys.

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    Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
  6. Sorry to bodda you, but.. by slideroll · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's actually called Columbo, and it featuers the voice of Peter Falk saying, "Excuse me sir, but you got mail!".

  7. Re:the question I have by Forthan+Red · · Score: 2, Funny
    > The question I have though, is what makes this better than the other dozen free email clients?

    You'll have much more time to contemplate the meaning of the universe while you wait for it to boot up. So basically it makes you a better person.