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Kontact personal information manager (Linux.com)

[Posted September 1, 2005 by cook]

Linux.com reviews Kontact, a personal information manager. "KDE's Kontact personal information manager acts as a centralized viewing and editing interface for email, contacts, to-do list, calendar, and notes. Kontact provides you with a Summary view of all the important information you have stored on computer. It also warns you when birthdays and anniversaries are fast approaching, and can even tell you the weather conditions in as many cities as you set it up to show. It's pretty good-looking to boot."

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Kontact can also act as Kolab2 Groupware Client

Posted Sep 1, 2005 18:13 UTC (Thu) by ber (subscriber, #2142) [Link]

The review is more a description as it does not compare or evaluates KDE's Kontact.

One other good point of Kontact is that if you use it as KDE Kolab client, you can save the contents on a Groupware Server.

Kolab is insane

Posted Sep 2, 2005 17:59 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]

Has Kolab not understood what package management is? They have "packages" for Debian, but those packages are *RPM*, which install into their own tree, with their own apache, gcc, make, perl, vim etc.

Now just what is so special about kolab's perl or vim that they cannot use the distribution's packages?