Hello everyone, Just wanted to drop a note and let y'all know that Ximian Gnome is *very nice*. I am running Mandrake 7.2, and the installation went quite well. There was a problem initially resolving all dependencies for the Gnome upgrade to 1.4, but all I had to do was cancel and retry, and it worked fine. I did a minimal install, so as to avoid getting software I already have installed (StarOffice, Gimp, etc.), and then after that was done I used the Red Carpet installer (which is compatible with Mandrake security updates, and so I can do both from one application) to download and install Evolution (beta). By the way, the Red Carpet installer has a very nice interface, much better (IMHO) than either MandrakeUpdate or RPMDrake. Both Mandrake apps work fine, of course (for me anyway), but since Red Carpet can fulfill both functions, plus do Ximian updates for me, I will probably stick to that unless I run into a problem where the Mandrake apps are necessary. This message comes from Evolution, and based upon my couple hours of use, I like it. That may change, since I have not yet tried out all the features I normally use (or miss) in Kmail, but we'll see. I was never a big Outlook fan (the security holes always gave me the screaming heebee-jeebees, although I like the GUI interface), but Evolution looks quite similar, and I think that Outlook users will really like it. If anyone is interested in upgrading Mandrake 7.x's standard version of Gnome, I highly recommend it (I think Mandrake 8.0 comes with Ximian, so you've got it on CD). The only downside is, the download size is quite big. The *minimal* install, which was basically an upgrade of Gnome to version 1.4, was 95 MB. It's a good thing I have DSL ;-) Evolution was another 11.5 MB, mostly for the Evolution rpm, but also three extra support packages were needed to fulfill dependencies. Have a good one, Dave
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