Hi. If balsa is so good and accessible with Gnopernicus, then why are
you still using Outlook express 6.0 for email? For me, access to a
product means you can use it daily, not just for show.
Kenny
On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 11:25:17PM -0400, Tom and Esther Ward wrote:
> Snip:
> "You do not need a GUI in Linux so don't waste the time with Gnome as
> your effort to make it work will NOT be rewarded"
> Reply:
> On the contrary I use gnopernicus for a great many tasks and with Gnome 2.6
> and Gnopernicus 0.8.4 functionally operating you can use gedit if you like a
> Windows-like text editor like I do, use file roller to unpack archives,
> balsa for sending/recieving email, gnome-cd for playing music cds,
> gnome-volume for controling volume, and a handfull of other apps including
> Openoffice on a daily basis.
> Point here, while gnopernicus has a long ways to go there is many things it
> can be used for on a daily basis. Weather every end user of the software
> has the same needs or uses it for those kinds of apps depends on the user
> and is subjective. However, saying that it can not be used on a daily basis
> is off base.
>
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