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TM: Where are you based? What does your company do?
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Since the very beginning, directories (of any kind) have had a very central role in the internet. (I have recently grown fond of Free Web Directory. Even Slashdot can be considered a directory: a collection of great news and invaluable user-generated comments. As far as software is concerned, doing a quick search on Google about software directories will return the free (as in freedom) software directories like Savannah, SourceForge, Freshmeat and so on, followed by shareware and freeware sites such as FileBuzz, PCWin Download Center and All Freeware (great if you're looking for shareware and freeware, but definitely less comprehensive than their free-as-in-freedom counterparts).
Mark Shuttleworth is the founder of Thawte, the first Certification Authority to sell public SSL certificates. After selling Thawte to Verisign, Mark moved on to training as an astronaut in Russia and visiting space. Once he got back he founded Ubuntu, the leading GNU/Linux distribution. He agreed on releasing a quick interview to Free Software Magazine.
I read David Jonathon's article Anybody Up To Writing Good Directory Software? the other day, which got me thinking about software directories in general. As David mentioned, many of the software directories one finds when doing a quick google search are free as in beer, not as in freedom. But what interests me is the software directories that already exist, providing a combination of both free as in beer software, and open source software. Sites such as Freeware Downloads and Shareware Download don't advertise themselves as providing free as in liberty software, but each of them have a good selection of open source software available... if you know where to look.
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A little while ago, while talking in the #drupal mailing list, I showed my latest creation to one of the core developers there. His reaction was "Wow, I am always surprised what people use Drupal for". His surprise is somehow justified: I did create a site for a bunch of entertainers in Perth, a company set to use Drupal to take over the world with Entertainers.Biz.
Update: since writing this article, I have updated the system so that the whole booking process happens online. I will update the article accordingly!
More and more people are discovering free software. Many people only do so after weeks, or even months, of using it. I wonder, for example, how many Firefox users actually know how free Firefox really is—many of them realise that you can get it for free, but find it hard to believe that anybody can modify it and even redistribute it legally.
When the discovery is made, the first instinct is to ask: why do they do it? Programming is hard work. Even though most (if not all) programmers are driven by their higher-than-normal IQs and their amazing passion for solving problems, it’s still hard to understand why so many of them would donate so much of their time to creating something that they can’t really show off to anybody but their colleagues or geek friends.
Sure, anybody can buy laptops, and just program. No need to get a full-on lab or spend thousands of dollars in equipment. But... is that the full story?
It dawned on me the other day, as I was shopping for the dozens of gifts it seems I have to buy every December, that Santa Claus is the most successful open source project in history. (Bridget @ Illiterarty would agree with that). Santa Claus is essentially a marketing development that is embodied by everyone who stuffs a sock, gives a gift, hosts a dinner or wishes Merry Christmas over the holiday season.
When I first started thinking about Free Software Magazine, I was feeling enthusiastic about the dream. I had Dave, Gianluca, and Alan willing to help me, I had established members of the free software community willing to help me out, I had writers volunteering their time and energy for free, and I had a generous offer from OpenHosting for servers, all before I'd proved myself. There was a sense of excitement in the air, and I thought maybe, just maybe, I could make this work.
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Let us know what your favourite email program is
Don't forget to let us know what your "other" program is if you use a different one from the ones listed.
What's your favourite email program?
Icedove version 1.5.0.9 (20061220)
Gmail/web
Gmail/web
Gmail!
Gmail! =D
"other" Email program
PocoMail 4. I like it because I can sent out newsletters to a large mailing list as individual Emails. BCC would work in other Email clients, but I can also individualize each Email if I wish using templates.
Jim
Kontact
I know that you listed kmail, but I use it as part of kontact, so it is part of the suite, which gives me more than evolution.
I offer Thunderbird with lightining to my windows based clients, as Kontact is not available to them.
My favorite email program
I have used the light version of Eudora, and now the sponsored version, for years and years. Eudora will soon drop its paid mode because it is moving to open source.
Browser based for me.
SeaMonkey (the old Mozilla Suite) Mail.
Also email.com for varying correspondences.
My favorite email program
I use incredimail and have for awhile now. I really like it.
Gmail (Web Based)
Gmail (Web Based)
Thunderbird
Thunderbird
KMail/Kontact
(I can't vote)
I voted other, since my
I voted other, since my favourite email program is Kmail.
KMail missing
I am a mutt user, but if I used a GUI mail client, it definitly would be kmail
I use ...
kontact/kmail
Kmail added and votes adjusted.
Obviously a glaring omission on our part. Apologies
Gnus.
Gnus.
more options
What about seamonkey and claws-mail?
Thunderbird & Evolution
I use thunderbird because evolution is too Outlookish. I am not sure why we need to copy Look & Feel of M$ products.
BTW: How do I bottom post in Evolution?
Raghu
www.raghukodali.com
Other: Claws-Mail
I also use mutt quite often, but claws-mail is definitely the favourite.
sylpheed
sylpheed
Sylpheed-Claws
I like Sylpheed-Claws. My second choice is of course Thunderbird (if only Thunderbird and Firefox could PRINT PROPERLY!!!)
Mutt and Kmail
I use mutt and kmail depending on whether I'm running X or curses
Nobody uses pine?
Hello,
Goodness me... nobody uses Pine anymore...?!?
Oh well, never mind! I wouldn't have thought that was the case.
I guess the word has moved on...
Merc.
Why would you do that if you can use mutt?
Why would anyone use pine when they could use mutt? :P
SquirrelMail
May sound stupid,
but having SquirrelMail on my home server
realy made my live simple and save
Another vote for Squirrelmail
Access anywhere, through any browser, and keep all your settings and filters? It has to be a winner :)
While I voted for Kmail as
While I voted for Kmail as it is what I currently use I am considering switching to something else, not sure if it will be Evolution, Thunderbird or build my own LAMP based system - guess that would be tinkermail then :D
Evolution, helps me keep my
Evolution, helps me keep my Calender and tasks to.
Would not know if it looks like Outlook because I don't use it.
Outlook Express. It does
Outlook Express. It does more than any 'nix version or thunderbird. Also it combines with a newsreader which I like - mozilla never got this right.
Cannot vote
Is the poll closed? I don't see any place where to vote. Thanks.
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Gmail of course
Firefox running Gmail is my choice. I haven't tried many desktop clients (only Thunderbird once) and they would probably work more fluently in some areas, however Gmail has a lot that email clients couldn't offer. Running it on 2 PC's and 3 OS's Gmail is always the same on all of them.
I hope I will find a client that will support server side organization of my messages (labels, stars etc. on Gmail) and will feature what I miss now -- good (kde) desktop integration and ideally interaction with something like Google Talk as well.
I chose Evolution several years ago...
...when it was the only one I found that reliably synchronised calendar, contacts and tasks with my old PalmPilot PDA. Right now others do this as well. But while the Thunderbird project has my big sympathy for being the most well-known free software mail client, I'll neither use nor advocate it as long as the Mozilla Corporation has this ghastly attitude of judging theoretical security attacks to be more important than users losing their mails for more than one month. See
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360409
Sylpheed-claws
I've used most of the others at one time or another, but I'm happiest with this one at the moment
Opera
By far I use Gmail+Opera Browser Email (not Opera mail!)
I know this sounds lame, but
I know this sounds lame, but I use Opera's built in mail client.
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For those who don't know, sylpheed claws = claws mail
Sylpheed Claws changed its name to Claws Mail in early December with version 2.6.1. Of course sylpheed claws was a fork of sylpheed in the first place.
Sylpheed Claws also dropped
Sylpheed Claws also dropped windows support for a while and I switched to Thunderbird. I just took a peek; and claws does have a binary for Windows. Damn, I missed claws.
thunderbird
thunderbird
Pine
Wow... no Pine love. :'( I've always loved Pine's interface, and if I were to switch from Gmail back to an email client, I'd go back to Pine in a heartbeat.
Heathens. :-)
sylpheed-claws!
Of course.
SeaMonkey Mail
I just like it. :)
Voted KMail but....
I would have preferred to vote for Kontact as I only use KMail through Kontact.
Opera mail
I've used Opera web browser for years and Opera mail for a couple of years. I think more people should give them a try.
Proprietary software
I won't be doing that I'm afraid as Opera is proprietary software.
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GNU - free as in freedom
Sylpheed
Sylpheed. No other comment.
Favourite Email Program
Kmail. I prefer KDE to Gnome particularly because everything is so well integrated. I use Kontact for work: Calendar, Contacts, Email and RSS all in one package. Works well with Konqueror for web-browsing.
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Regards
Phil Thane
Read mail? Oh, you mean that funny envelope!
I use:
In that order. It's kind of lot of work to set up gnus right. Or else I would only use that. Emacs is the only OS you realy need :)
Mail App
Apple Mail since I'm still using OS X - one day, Linux but today Apple.
E
email client
Other - I'm using balsa.
Thunderbird
I use Thunderbird for my desktop email application, although I do find myself using Gmail more often.
Pegasus Mail
It's free as in beer ... but such beer!
Oh -- and on Linux, Evolution.
And when I'm travelling, Squirrelmail.
I personally use Mutt-ng and
I personally use Mutt-ng and I don't think I'll ever use anything else.
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Linux: The choice of a GNU generation.
Linuxinfusion.com
Gmail and Opera Mail M2
These are the clients I mostly use. Since I am an opera user for a long time, it just make sense to use this mail client. I like that is really fast since it uses SQLite as the engine.
Alexandro Colorado
Kmail for me
I changed from Thunderbird to Kmail a couple of months ago. Although it's not as friendly as Thunderbird when it comes to html formatting outgoing messages, it has several other advantages for me. The main one is that it is integrated into the Kontact suite. It's nice having my email (Kontact), usenet (Knode), RSS feeds (Akregator), calendar & alarms, address book, to-do's & several other modules all contained in the one program.
I also like the way it auto-detects & integrates Spamassassin, Bogofilter & Clam-AV.
Depends
At home: Eudora, at work:Gmail or webmail ... :)
Family pc's:Thunderbird x 3 Eudora x 2
based on access, time, suitability, toolset, functionality, purpose, audience... etc
flexibility and choice
I use Opera/M2 mail client
I use Opera/M2 mail client for work and home.
On Windows or *NIX
IncrediMail is my favorite
IncrediMail is my favorite
Claws-Mali
indeed i use claws-mail in Linux and XP.
Test many clients, in both OS must work.
If only for Linux best is kmail, for XP TheBat.
There are not many clients work in both OS so claws-mail is handy, lightweight and fast and handle IMAP.