[KLUG Members] Mandrake 8.0 update

[Bryan J. Smith]

Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> You mean Nautilus?  It is maintained.  There have been several
> sub-releases.  It is a slightly leaner sow than before.

Agreed.  They have been able to keep up with changes -- e.g., they
fixed problems with the Trash not working with XFS filesystems.

> Evolution has a very nice calendar. gnomecal is functional and syncs
> with Palm Pilots.  Supposedly Evolution does to,  but to enable that you
> have to build from source..... Nah, I'll pass.

BTW, I just got one of those Kyocera SmartPhones -- fully Linux
compatible with Pilot Link.

> I'm still a RedHat man. :)

Mandrake seems to be a little less worried about package testing and
non-commodity system testing.

-- TheBS

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