Solo Technology

A long time ago, when I was just starting with this whole blogging “thing”, I wrote a bit about how much I’d love to have Evolution for Windows. Apparently there’s been a win32 port out for a while that I’d not heard of, but Rich tossed me a link today for something that looks a bit more polished. Which is truly one of the joys of open source, eh? Finally, there might be a free Outlook replacement for Windows.

1. My package contains an installer and not just a bunch of zip files of Evolution and its dependencies that the user is supposed to figure out and put together. I like things easy
2. My package does not cause an MS-DOS Shell window to be open during the entire time that Evolution is being used. We save screen real estate space, yay!
3. My package sets the environment paths automatically, which again makes things manageable for your ‘average’, non-geek user.
4. My package cleanly terminates some processes and deletes temporary files that Evolution should take care of by itself but does not do so in the default release. This effectively means that this install starts up repeat seasons of Evolution 4x-5x faster.

I’ve downloaded it, now just have to find the time to play with it a bit. Very exciting!

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