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 -- Jeff Lasman, Nobaloney Internet Services P.O. Box 52200, Riverside, CA 92517 Our jplists address used on lists is for list email only voice: +1 951 643-5345, or see: "http://www.nobaloney.net/contactus.html";
