On 13/03/2015, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/03/2015, Thomas H. George <li...@tomgeorge.info> wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 03:39:44AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: >>> On 12/03/2015, Thomas H. George <li...@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. >> > > 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. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cacx6j8mecxhogotpxrbobvm27uiv5h2g9iwadvd8fvqg3vp...@mail.gmail.com
