[Kolab-devel] State of Kontact Mail

[Bernhard Reiter]

Andreas,
thanks a lot for helping with the development of Kontact Mail.
(I prefer the name "Kontact Mail" now, because it describes the 
result after the nice long development step.)

Am Saturday, 3. December 2011 21:18:07 schrieb Del:
> Moreover, consider settling with exactly what your distribution of
> choice ships. Wait with all the new and fancy stuff (even if it annoys
> you) until it trickles down to your distributions mainline repos.

Another option is to use packages from someone who does more quality
control on the new components. This is of course advertising
Kolab Systems' offerings for Kontact, but I also consider it a general remark. 
Often there are specialised initiatives or even professional service providers 
that will give you access to an application for your GNU/Linux Distribution
before it will be available via the distribution itself.

Even before the times of Kolab Systems this was the case for Kontact and the 
Kolab Server. If you got the stuff from the Kolab initiative, e.g. via 
kolab.org, it was much available in a production state.

> Consider virtualisation if you really need some bleeding edge stuff
> which can break your system. For complex software stacks like Kontact,
> this rule is particularly important. Kmail1 is still the best client
> out there, significantly better than the newest Thunderbird in my
> book.

Best Regards,
Bernhard

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