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| Hamish 2004-09-17, 9:01 pm |
| Howdy,
I have recently 'opensourced' my windows installation. i.e. goodbye
office, ie, messenger and have installed firfox 1.0 preview, thunderbird
0.8 and openoffice. all works really well. now, all i need to replace is
the tasks in outlook... any ideas? what works well?
Later
H
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| Michael B. Johnson 2004-09-17, 9:01 pm |
| On Fri, 17 Sep 2004 14:58:30 +0200, Hamish <hamishm@mailbox.co.za>
wrote:
>I have recently 'opensourced' my windows installation. i.e. goodbye
>office, ie, messenger and have installed firfox 1.0 preview, thunderbird
>0.8 and openoffice. all works really well. now, all i need to replace is
>the tasks in outlook... any ideas? what works well?
How complex are your needs? Do you need to synchronize it with a
Palm/BlackBerry or whatever, for example?
How complex are your task views in MS Outlook?
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Michael B. Johnson
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| Bart Vandewoestyne 2004-09-17, 9:01 pm |
| In article <d8SdnZ0NlZwmQ9fcRVn-tA@is.co.za>, Hamish wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have recently 'opensourced' my windows installation. i.e. goodbye
> office, ie, messenger and have installed firfox 1.0 preview, thunderbird
> 0.8 and openoffice. all works really well.
You might also want to take a look at http://osswin.sourceforge.net
It's a list with all Open Source applications for Windows.
Regards,
Bart
--
"Share what you know. Learn what you don't."
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| Conrad J. Sabatier 2004-10-02, 8:56 pm |
| In article <d8SdnZ0NlZwmQ9fcRVn-tA@is.co.za>,
Hamish <hamishm@mailbox.co.za> wrote:
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>Howdy,
>
>I have recently 'opensourced' my windows installation. i.e. goodbye
>office, ie, messenger and have installed firfox 1.0 preview, thunderbird
>0.8 and openoffice. all works really well. now, all i need to replace is
>the tasks in outlook... any ideas? what works well?
>
>Later
>H
Why not "opensource" your OS while you're at it? :-)
--
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"
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| KHaled 2004-10-04, 9:09 am |
| conrads@cox.net (Conrad J. Sabatier) wrote in
news:D1H7d.28046$Ok.11551@okepread04:
> In article <d8SdnZ0NlZwmQ9fcRVn-tA@is.co.za>,
> Hamish <hamishm@mailbox.co.za> wrote:
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> Why not "opensource" your OS while you're at it? :-)
>
This is a brave suggestion, but for this to be viable One
needs to know that the huge number of applications that are
available for WinX are useable under *nx, even with emulator
software..
I wish that there be more information on this, what has been
the experience of users who have converted ??
I think this ng is ideal for this, and I hope that people
"energize"..
Regards,
KH.
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| Blinky the Shark 2004-10-05, 4:04 am |
| KHaled wrote:
> conrads@cox.net (Conrad J. Sabatier) wrote in
> news:D1H7d.28046$Ok.11551@okepread04:
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> This is a brave suggestion, but for this to be viable One
> needs to know that the huge number of applications that are
> available for WinX are useable under *nx, even with emulator
> software..
No, one only has to know which ones are the open source analogs.
--
Blinky Linux Registered User 297263
Go Double Blue - Wolverines and Dodgers
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| Dave Hinz 2004-10-05, 4:04 pm |
| On 5 Oct 2004 04:18:03 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
> KHaled wrote:
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> No, one only has to know which ones are the open source analogs.
While it's nice for many of us to be able to switch to an open-source
OS, many people are not comfortable going all the way just yet all
at once. For some, it may be that there are tools they still need
to run windows for, for others it's a comfort-level thing.
Rather than give people the message that they're not doing it right
unless they're doing it all the way, why not help them with the
applications first? Once they're used to OpenOffice, Firefox,
etc etc etc on Windows, then they can use those same tools on an
open-source OS without much of a dramatic transition.
You don't change a person's behavior or mind by forcing them to make
more change at one time than they are used to. Assuming the
reason he doesn't want to switch right now is because he doesn't
_know_ wht the comparable open-source OS's are isn't helping anyone.
Dave Hinz
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| Michael B. Johnson 2004-10-05, 4:04 pm |
| On 5 Oct 2004 14:21:46 GMT, Dave Hinz <DaveHinz@spamcop.net> wrote:
>On 5 Oct 2004 04:18:03 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
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>While it's nice for many of us to be able to switch to an open-source
>OS, many people are not comfortable going all the way just yet all
>at once. For some, it may be that there are tools they still need
>to run windows for, for others it's a comfort-level thing.
Whatever. I will own that I've had some growing pains learning the new
stuff, myself.
Anyway, have you checked out Cygwin? If you have any knowledge of the
unix command line, there's a ton of stuff there! If not, there are the
man pages (and the info tool.)
The Cygwin tools seem to me to be as useful (or more so) as the 4DOS
and Take Command utilities that I registered (by J.P. Software). I
like having Midnight Commander too.
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Michael B. Johnson
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| Blinky the Shark 2004-10-05, 4:04 pm |
| Dave Hinz wrote:
> On 5 Oct 2004 04:18:03 GMT, Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> wrote:
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> While it's nice for many of us to be able to switch to an open-source
> OS, many people are not comfortable going all the way just yet all
> at once. For some, it may be that there are tools they still need
> to run windows for, for others it's a comfort-level thing.
> Rather than give people the message that they're not doing it right
> unless they're doing it all the way, why not help them with the
> applications first? Once they're used to OpenOffice, Firefox,
> etc etc etc on Windows, then they can use those same tools on an
> open-source OS without much of a dramatic transition.
Well, heck. My old standby URL for application analogs is down, at
least from here right now.
http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/
> You don't change a person's behavior or mind by forcing them to make
> more change at one time than they are used to. Assuming the
> reason he doesn't want to switch right now is because he doesn't
> _know_ wht the comparable open-source OS's are isn't helping anyone.
I thought the discussion was about applications; that was reflected in
my answer. It still looks that way to me. Yes, he'd need to pick an
OS first.
--
Blinky Linux Registered User 297263
Go Double Blue - Wolverines and Dodgers
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| Charles 2004-10-12, 3:58 pm |
| Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
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Did you try Novell Evolution? It is an Outlook clone.
--
Charles.
"Did you have your Win doseŽ today?"
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| KHaled 2004-10-21, 3:59 am |
| Charles <me@privacy.net> wrote in
news:2t2kfdF1opvo5U1@uni-berlin.de:
> Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:
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> Did you try Novell Evolution? It is an Outlook clone.
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> --
> Charles.
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> "Did you have your Win doseŽ today?"
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Is that for windows ?? The site indicates that it is for
Linux/Solaris
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| mike555 2004-10-30, 8:56 pm |
| conrads@cox.net (Conrad J. Sabatier) wrote in message news:<D1H7d.28046$Ok.11551@okepread04>...[color=darkred]
> In article <d8SdnZ0NlZwmQ9fcRVn-tA@is.co.za>,
> Hamish <hamishm@mailbox.co.za> wrote:
===== check out ... http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird.html
or you can ext.'s for Firefox =========
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