Finally the time for a Free Groupware party.Having long been used to Lotus and Exchange and hacks to support them.Finally the nirvana of Free Groupware is happening.With KDE's backing it this sure looks like a winner. Though I am still alternating between kontact and evolution unable to decide which one sucks more.
There you go PCLinuxOnline: The Free Groupware Killer Solution for SMBs

Update: In the long run Kollab did not appear a viable challenger. Zimbra has had a lot more success based on the killer web-based e-mail app. they wrote.

I seem to be inching towards the GNOME desktop again.
KDE is definitely a very well integrated desktop which I still use. Last time I shifted to GNOME was the infamous
KDE (2.0) release with Redhat 7.1 which ruined the perfect 1.2 release that shipped with Redhat 7.0.
Infact I stayed with GNOME for a long time after that till I installed Mandrake 10 with the latest polished very responsive KDE 3.2.x . And no small part in my conversion was played by this nice guy called Sirtaj Singh


However the killer IM is again Gaim instead of Kopete.
The e-mail client is again (well almost) Evolution though I continue to use Kmail as well.
Favorite 'browser' is still the light and fast konquerer.
Yahoo.......... instant messaging is fixed again (they broke it again yesterday) on gaim 0.79. This one was real quick. Though I had a bit of hard time figuring out where to get the RPMs for mozilla-nss-devel, mozilla-nspr-devel to get the gaim to compile. I wish I could use Fedora again but then all the tweaking that goes into making a desktop usable is lost once you change the distro. Looks I am no longer an 'enthusiast' for distros.


So which is my favorite Desktop?


Still KDE :-)

So finally I have stopped cribbing about the missing features in Openoffice about collaborative creation of documents. Watch out don't let out your thoughts.


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A new IRC channel to discuss Software development in Indian Perspective.


Currently several projects are planned related to making it easy for Hindi(and other regional) Speaking/Writing populace to use computers with ease.


To use this channel see this Howto that was originally written by bhaskie for #linux-india
on irc.freenode.net


micro-howto to show you how to get hooked to #akshar on irc.hindiakshar.org


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The #akshar IRC channel is up and running on
irc.hindiakshar.org. Please visit or idle in the channel to make it better.


This micro-howto will show you how to get hooked to #akshar:


1. Get hold of an IRC (internet relay chat) client. Some of the good
ones are:


bitchx - Advanced Internet Relay Chat client


ircii - Internet Relay Chat client


xchat - IRC client for X similar to AmIRC


xchat-gnome - IRC client for GNOME similar to AmIRC


mozilla-chatzilla - Mozilla Web Browser - irc client


kvirc - Fully scriptable graphical IRC client with plugin support


konversation - user friendly Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client for KDE

2. connect to irc.hindiakshar.org with your favourite IRC client (
please remember not to run irc as *root* unless you are on crack) for
example


In most clients you will be able to attach to the server using /server freenode.net
and join the channel #akshar using /join #akshar


3. Once you get online, register your nick. First see that your nick
is what you want. if its not, type:


/nick


then register the nick:
/msg nickserv register (password) (email)


4. to join the #akshar channel, type :


/join #akshar


Thats it. If this is the first time you are using IRC, you can see the
IRC Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) and Help Files
"http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/faq.html" for a more detailed
introduction. For more, ask for help in the channel.