[NTLUG:Discuss] ximian questions

[Rev. wRy]

Fred James wrote:
> Any informed opinion on the following products would be appreciated:
> (1) Ximian Desktop

Use it on several of my RH workstations at the office on my main 
workstation at home.

I don't think it exists for > RH 7.2.  I'm pretty sure they are waiting 
on the Gnome 2.0 stuff before you'll start to see newer distros supported.

> (2) Ximian Evolution(tm)

Outlook for Linux.  Everything in one place - calendaring, powerful 
filters, vfolders, nice address book, palm pilot support etc.  Newer 
versions support scripting for .sigs.  Very nice mail client.  Only 
thing I think is missing is some sort of feedback button to whitelist 
mail that isn't spam via spamassassin.

> (3) Ximian Connector(tm) for MS Exchange

Have not used this one.

> (4) Red Carpet(tm)

A lot like up2date.  You can hose your system (or at least could at one 
time) using both up2date and redcarpet to install packages.  Requires 
some trickyness on the backend.  One nice thing is that if the up2date 
servers are hosed, a lot of times you can get the security updates/fixes 
for your distro from Ximian.

Supposedly, the latest CVS versions contain a command line client in 
addition to the GUI.  I have not confirmed this, but I have a friend 
that works for Ximian and he says it's in there.

> (5) Red Carpet Express(tm)

Pay version of Red Carpet that features more bandwidth for updates along 
with some special channels.  I've never paid for it, so I can't tell you 
what kind of difference it makes.


> (6) Red Carpet Enterprise(tm)

Even more features than RCE, but again, I haven't used it.

> Thanks in advance

Ry
(can help with the backend trickyness)