[LinuxUsers] ubuntu questions

[Jeff Lasman]

On Monday 16 February 2009 09:28 am, Randall Whitman wrote:

> > I just installed ubuntu 8.10 on a new desktop system.
>
> Surprised you used 8.10 rather than 8.04-LTS.
> At the office we are sticking with LTS for the foreseeable future,
> tho at home we have 8.10; both work fine.

On desktops I see no reason for LTS; after all I'm still running 
Mandriva 2005 LE on the desktop on which I'm writing this.  Behind a 
NATted firewall, of course.  I want the latest fetures for the longest 
time.

> Found this but I'm not aware that it would conveniently be in the
> repositories: http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=2187
> Probably easier to run Kalarm given you're already familiar.
> Shouldnt be any problem, assuming you have the dependencies installed
> (i'd assume you'd use the pkg manager) and you have enough memory.
> I run apps for both GNOME & KDE under FVWM, no problem.

I'll look at it when I finally get an install done.

> Again, it's really up to you - if you like Kmail there shouldnt be
> any problem running it with GNOME, FVWM, IceWM, whatever.  If you
> like you could certainly do a search as to whether your key feature
> is supported in Thunderbird - if not in the core, maybe in an
> extension.

I tried an extension a few years ago; it simply didn't work for me.  
Maybe better these days.  I believe I saw the feature in Evolution, as 
well.  I'll look, but I may stick with KMail.

Thanks!

Jeff
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