Comments | technolope: Address Book on Linux?

technolope

Address Book on Linux?

May 16, 2011 10:28

For a third time, I find that a piece of OSX software has no Linux equivalent. The first time this happened, it was Quicktime Pro (now the mencoder/h264 quality and performance are better on Linux), the second time it was Keynote (there are Linux equivalents, but Keynote was just easier), and now it is Address Book. Since I must return my only OSX ( Read more... )

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jesus_jeff May 16 2011, 22:59:43 UTC

Have you tried the mozilla options - either thunderbird or seamonkey ?

jesus_jeff May 16 2011, 23:00:45 UTC

Oh, needs to print envelopes ... that might take a bit more doing...

technolope May 17 2011, 20:44:39 UTC

I might be willing to suspend my desire to print envelopes if the software allows me to import my vcards with all of my notes (which I hope Apple didn't support with a non-standard vcard format).

Does Thunderbird allow me to have an addressbook without linking the software to an e-mail account? I'd use Evolution if the setup didn't force me to link an e-mail account.