Archive for October, 2006

“Bloody fanatics”

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

Dear various people I’ve had the pleasure to read on various mailing-lists, forums, and blogs, about Firefox® versus Iceweasel.
If the fanatic named Richard Stallman hadn’t been a “fanatic” when he struggled with his printer, Free Software may not exist[1].
If the fanatics building our distributions weren’t “fanatics”, we’d still be using XFree86 instead of X.org and [...]

The Sylpheed-Claws meeting!

Tuesday, October 17th, 2006

The Sylpheed-Claws meeting finally happened this week-end! It’s been really nice to meet these people I work with since such a long time, and to put faces on names. It wasn’t a technical meeting at all, these ones can be done via email or IRC, just a meeting involving food, drinks and chatting; but we’ve [...]

When did you start using Sylpheed-Claws?

Monday, October 9th, 2006

Quick poll :)
I discovered Sylpheed then Sylpheed-Claws in December 2001. Started with Sylpheed version 0.6.6 (GTK+ 1.2.10; ), then after one month and two patches integrated in -Claws, switched to Sylpheed version 0.7.0claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu).
Didn’t look back since then…
What about you? (use an extended search in your sent folder, like:
header “X-Mailer” matchcase “sylpheed”

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