Websense, VNC, and Evolution

> My company uses that insidious software Websense.
> Mepis.org is blocked and comes up under the
> category "shopping". Kinda hard to adopt in a corporate
> environment if the support sites are blocked.
have you emailed websense about this? mepis.com could be rated shopping, but not mepis.org

> I use several computers on a daily basis and communicate
> between them using VNC. VNC is used extensively in all
> the engineering organizations that I have worked for.
> Mepis should include VNC server and client
> out-of-the-box

Mepis isn't aimed at the multi computer user like yourself, but more at the single desktop user. As space on a CD distro is always at a premium, a lot of useful things have to be left off. I can't recall any other calls for vnc on the CD - perhaps my memory is going...

> As far as email goes, I feel that Evolution has the edge
> for a corporate environment. For me, the killer feature
> is the ability to use a corporate email list to look up
> email addresses, plus the integration with ms exchange.

This is available in many different ways, and the generic name is LDAP server. Lots of servers run LDAP. I have no idea what one uses ms exchange for, except to spend money on a proprietary product, so I don't know what alternates there are.

> I also run vmware server to run ms office. Linux is not
> going to just displace Windows. They must coexist.

And I use 'parallels' to get my work software going on my laptop, for when I have to leave the building and see people elsewhere. I'd prefer a Linux solution for work but it doesn't exist yet.

> I am currently running Fedora. I evaluated mepis 3.4.3
> and really liked it, except Evolution did not seem fully
> supported, VNC was not included, couldn't find my sun
> monitor
> Looking forward to mepis 6