On 5/26/2011 4:21 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
- see if your boss has a problem with you having to remember to
update thunderbird from the i386 updates directory. 2) see if you could (gently) convince the centos guys to put it also in one of the centosplus or extras x86_64 portions of the repo. [I
<snip> Would be nice. Trouble is, we've got what, 60? 70? people in the division who have Linux workstations, and then rolling it all out, and no one wants to deal with 32-bit apps on 64 bit systems (we won't mention npviewer<segv><segv<segv>)....
Lightening and lightening-exchange looked really good....
If you are using Centos as a desktop, you'll probably want to upgrade to 6.0 at the first opportunity which should get you up to T-bird 3.1.x with a matching thunderbird-ligntening in EPEL. Still need the exchange connector, though.
I've come to prefer an android phone for reading the calendar and getting notifications, though - and I normally have a laptop with outlook on my desk. And I could probably live with that or the web interface to create new entries.