Re: [SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> The point: how come Microsoft's own OS can't run their own products at > this speed and with this stability ? Bad software on bad hardware. Win4Lin lets you run bad software on good software on bad hardware. - Jeff -- "It's actually my new bandwidth conservation technique: compresion of

Re: [SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Jon Biddell
A most interesting concept (OSS software on Windows) and a damn good way of converting employers... Something else that may / may not assist... I was playing around with the latest Win4Lin from the December 2002 APC cover CD (a 30 day trial), running Windows 98 under it I installed Outlook 20

Re: [SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: > There have been some nibbles for porting GNOME stuff to Windows, to achieve > the same kind of advantage that OpenOffice has... Hook 'em where they're > comfortable, let them know it's even better on a Free platform. That's basically my plan. If I can sho

Re: [SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:56, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > Has anyone ever (tried to, successfully) run Evolution under Windows? I > > know several other GTK programs do spend some time in the land of the long > > load time, but how about Evolution? > > No, unfortunately, the GNOME stuff underneath

Re: [SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Has anyone ever (tried to, successfully) run Evolution under Windows? I > know several other GTK programs do spend some time in the land of the long > load time, but how about Evolution? No, unfortunately, the GNOME stuff underneath hasn't been ported to Windows (this may get easier with the

[SLUG] Evolution on Windows?

2003-01-23 Thread Matthew Palmer
OK, not entirely a Linux question (although it will lead to a Linux migration in the future). But this is probably the best repository of Evolution knowledge I hang around in, so here goes. Has anyone ever (tried to, successfully) run Evolution under Windows? I know several other GTK programs do