| Art Alexion on 28 Feb 2007 13:44:31 -0000 |
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On Tuesday 27 February 2007 21:38, K.S. Bhaskar wrote: > I tried evolution twice and gave up both times. The open source > mantra is release early release often. The evolution mantra (at least > for me) was crash early and crash often (and yes, crash mysteriously > at random times, and sometimes bug buddy would also crash collecting > information about my evolution crashes). Also, when total mail > folders get large (tens of folders totaling hundreds of MB), it takes > for ever to start up and shut down (it seems to insist on reading and > touching every folder), and frequently passes the Bhaskar test for > hanging (if I run out of patience waiting for a program to do its > thing, it's a hang, even if it will take less than infinite time to > complete what it is doing). > > I run thunderbird. I, too, tried evolution and dropped it. I found it way too big a program for what it accomplished; it loads so many things in order to run relatively simple tasks. It also seemed to have that proprietary software philosophy of knowing what you want better than you do; customizability and modularity were not its strongest assets. It was among the reasons I switched from Ubuntu-Gnome to Kubuntu-KDE. With the Ubuntu version of Gnome, there didn't seem to be a way to share calendar and address data with my Palm Pilot unless I used the Evolution conduits, which meant I had to use Evolution. -- _____________________________________________________________ Art Alexion PGP fingerprint: 52A4 B10C AA73 096F A661 92D2 3B65 8EAC ACC5 BA7A Keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net The attachment - signature.asc - is my electronic signature; no need for alarm. Info @ http://mysite.verizon.net/art.alexion/encryption/signature.asc.what.html _____________________________________________________________ Attachment:
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