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Michael D. Hirsch wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 March 2004 08:21 am, walter Sams wrote:
> 
>>I currently use Evolution for our small office environment, I am
>>looking to make life easier and use more "stuff" that is setup and
>>supported by distrubution developers.  I am switching to the Mandrake
>>os and kde desktop.  If you have used both Evolution and
>>Kmail/Korganizer how would you compare them?  We do need to be able
>>to send calendar updates frequently to each other in the office other
>>than that basic PIM function is all we are looking for.  I also see
>>that kde touts putting their calendar on an ftp server, does this
>>make my calendar acessible from any computer I happen to be  sitting
>>at, kind of like a web based calendar?
> 
> 
> I must confess that I haven't actually used much except kmail.  I don't 
> currently use the calendar and there aren't any other KDE folks here 
> for me to try to share calendars with, anyway.  I prefer kmail to 
> evolution, probably only because I prefer KDE to GNOME.  I have a 
> couple annoyances with Evolution, but nothing major.
> 
> If you are switching to Mandrake, you might want to check out the latest 
> Madrake 10 (I think it is only officially available to mandrake Club 
> users, but I bet you can find a copy if you look.  In fact, I just 
> found it at cheapbytes.com for $8.99).
> 
> Mandrake 10 has KDE 3.2 which has the new Kontact application with is a 
> nice wrapper around kmail, addr book, calendar, todo list, making if 
> essentially equivalent to Evolution.
> 
> Even better, mandrake 10 also supplies kroupware which adds groupware 
> stuff to kontact.  I think it comes with a server, but I haven't played 
> with that, yet.  But you have a choice whether to install kmail, or 
> kmail with kroupware.
> 
> Michael
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