excuse for not using Linux

taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 09, 2003 9:25 pm Post subject:

hmmm I'll have another look, but about 6 months ago searches turned up nothing..
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

If you're talking about the kind of thing Exchange/Outlook do, then take a look at CommuniGate Pro ... http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/. Their MAPI connector seems to be capable of such things and you can also use web based things like iCal.

Check out these links too:
http://www.stalker.com/CommuniGatePro/MAPI.html
http://www.icalx.com/
http://www.brownbearsw.com/

_JR
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krusty_ar · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:28 pm Post subject:

take a look at kde3.1 changelog, korganizer can now interact with exchange if needed, there's also a project (kgroupware or something), that will be introduced in kde3.2 (but is abailable now in separate form) that does everything that exchange does (and probably much more) using apache, ldap and some other tools.

that project it's being funded by the german goverment to manage all official networks so it must be a good thing (tm)
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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

I hadn't heard about Kroupware, but found some links that I though you all might enjoy.

http://kroupware.kde.org/
http://pim.kde.org/development/kroupware.php

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taskara · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:47 pm Post subject:

thanks heaps for all that info.. this time last year there was really nothing, now there are heaps... linux is certainly moving forward

go the German Gov!

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flickerfly · l33t Joined: 08 Nov 2002 Posts: 677 Location: Lanham, MD

Hm... Maybe I'll move to Germany. I was thinking about Pennsylvania, but Germany sounds inviting.

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NicholasDWolfwood · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 235

"The school won't let us"

That's the excuse I get when I asked my computer teacher why we couldn't use Linux.

Radiouk · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 11

The best one I heard was..nobody uses linux :cry:

taskara · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 9:50 pm Post subject:

"linux is too hard"
"linux is only better for networking and servers"
"you can't run any windows programs on linux"

"but it's not to bad for a free product" - that one really GRIPES me!! ARGH :evil:

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taskara · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2003 10:08 pm Post subject:

thanks... I'm in the process of working it all out atm

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kementeus · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 30 Location: Guatemala

"There's not design software for Linux", I think they mean about page layout software (Adobe Pagemaker, Macromedia Freehand) -in Linux there are people working really hard to get one running, Sodipodi for example- and drawing-paint software like Photoshop -GIMP!!!!!!....

Well... no way...
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dreamer3 · Guru Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 553

At a company with no one capable of truly administering the Windows network we already have:

"Once you leave and setup this new-fangled Linux stuff, and all the Windows problems are gone and everything just works, we wouldn't know what to do _if_ there ever was a problem."

The "no one knows how to use linux" argument.

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EvilTwinSkippy · Posted: Sat Feb 22, 2003 2:24 am Post subject: Me Personal Favorite

Our user's will need to be retrained on how to use Linux and OpenOffice.

When I point out that we have a 30% turnover rate per year, our users can barely use spellcheck, and that by the time we finish rubber rooming the 2k desktops you really CAN'T use them as windows machines everyone kind of looks embarrased and changes the subject.

:roll:

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