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Blue|Fusion · Posted: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 18:39:46 Post Subject:

EC, the Kolab server and KDE Kontact program do most of what Exchange does. Remote logins are done with an LDAP server for the centralized login authorization server.

Knight, you lack to realize how poerful Linux really is. I have seen a replacement for almost every Windows application I ever needed to run:
Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice
Internet Exlorer -> Mozilla Firefox (DUH!)
Outlook -> Mozilla Thunderbird or Kontact or lots of other programs
Winamp -> Xmms
iTunes -> Amarok (KDE) or Banshee (GNOME)
Windows Media Player -> Xine or Mplayer (I use both for different things)
CD Ripping -> Lame
CD//DVD Burning -> k3b (KDE)
Hardware monitoring -> lm_sensors + hddtemp + GKrellM
Laptop/keyboard function/multimedia buttons -> acpid + a little custom coding (did this over the weekend)
Gaming -> Cedega (BF2 works better in here than Windows, anyway)
Windows Networking -> Samba
Editors -> KWrite or Kate
TV tuner -> ivtv drivers + Mplayer
and the list goes on...

Linux is more of a "nerd"-based OS, but hey...putting in a little extra work makes the victory even sweeter!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:39:16 Post Subject:

Blue|Fusion · Posted: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:00:03 Post Subject:

It does do Calendar and Email with the password saved logins. To do the network share that you discussed would be a different system, but given the proper requirements you need for it, something can be whipped up.

And I don't know what "groups websites" would be considered. I never got that far into Exchange or Kolab. I know there's some file saving stuff and shared contacts (which Kolab also has).

But here's an example of network share stuff. When I boot up my laptop, I create an init script to see what network it's on (it's wireless, mind you), and if it's on my personal wireless router or the campus wireless infrastructure, it will mount to a share on my desktop and access all my music, movies, documents, programming files, etc. And even Windows can access the sahre given the proper system login was used. I would even be able to access it over the internet, however, the campus has a firewall so that's a nogo.