Re: Best replacement for iceape?
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 05:11:55AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 13/03/2015, Bret Busby <bret.busby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 13/03/2015, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:39:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> >>> On 12/03/2015, Thomas H. George <lists@tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> >>> > Ok, iceape must go. What next?
> >>> >
> >>> > My installed iceape has an extensive list of email addresses some of
> >>> > which include complete snailmail addresses. What email clients can
> >>> > accept/assist transfer of all this information?
> >>> >
> >>> > Tom
> >>> >
> >>>
> >>> The replacement for iceape was discussed in the original thread that
> >>> you started about iceape.
> >>>
> >>> iceape is, I believe, a Debian derivative of Seamonkey, and I assume
> >>> that people from the Debian Project, or, the developers of iceape,
> >>> could clarify this.
> >>>
> >>> So, on the premise that I am more or less correct in stating that
> >>> iceape is a Debian derivative of Seamonkey, then, where iceape is not
> >>> available, the logical, and, closest, replacement for iceape, is
> >>> Seamonkey.
> >>>
> >>> Simple.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Maybe. I have been using iceape for a long time, at least 10 years I
> >> belive, so maybe the lineage is the other way around. At any rate there
> >> is no Seamonkey on Jessie. Its sad losing iceape suite which integrated
> >> iceape browser and iceape mail and newsgroups into one package. Still we
> >> must progress.
> >>
> >
OK. Seamonkey is Icedove in Jessie, looks familiar. I will save the
installation folder .mozilla and replace it with my iceape .mozilla
folder and see what happens.
Tom
> > See
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation_software_rebranded_by_the_Debian_project
> > and
> > https://launchpad.net/iceape
> >
> > These are only two of the many results, from searching for the terms
> > "iceape" and "suite".
> >
> > I believe that the information shows that iceape was created and
> > released as Debian software, in about 2007, with the Debian version
> > named "etch", with iceape being a derivative of Seamonkey, and that
> > iceape was created for the Debian Project, due to licensing and
> > trademark issues.
> >
>
> Oh, and, I have been using iceape and Seamonkey, and, the parent
> software; the Netscape suite, from back when I think it was about
> Netscape 3, I think, following the evolution of the integrated suite.
> I do remember using it, when it was Netscape, before the separated
> Mozilla suite.
>
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