What 3rd party

[Brian J. Tarricone]

Rakotmandimby Mihamina wrote:

>Hello all ,
>I would like to know wich software you use for these actions :
>- messenging ( Yahoo, AIM, MSN)
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gaim.  i'm mainly an aim user, however (stupid friends won't use 
anything better), so people looking for yahoo or msn support should be 
aware that gaim has on-again-off-again issues with these protocols.

>- Mailing + News + AdressBook
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thunderbird for mail, pan for news.  i don't really maintain much of an 
address book, so the functionality in thunderbird is fine for my 
purposes.  on a side note, i don't believe i've seen anyone mention 
evolution (tho i may have missed it as i'm not paying 100% attention to 
this thread).  i've been considering trying it out, but with my 
convoluted email setup, a new client requires a little bit of work, and 
i'd rather not try it out if it's going to waste my time.  opinions?

>- Syncing with a Palm 
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don't have one =/

>- Calendar
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never really use one (my brain is usually enough to keep things 
together).  at work we use oracle calendar (previously called 
'corporatetime').  it's by no means free (beer) or free (speech), but it 
seems to work very well and has clients for linux, mac, and windows (tho 
i admit i haven't gotten around to installing the linux client as of 
yet).  though i don't actually use it for calendaring, xfcalendar 
appears to be sufficient for simple uses it seems (i just use it as a 
pop up when i need to figure out what day of the week some date in the 
future is).

>- Office suit .
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abiword/gnumeric for the quick stuff, openoffice for the more lengthy 
projects. though after looking at abiword-2.0, i may ditch openoffice, 
as aw-2 seems to be a leap forward in terms of features from 1.0.

ah, so it seems the xfce list has turned into an opinion-poll list... 
hehe...

    -brian