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As much as I like Windows 7 relative to previous versions of Windows, I'm again taking a stab at using Linux as a development desktop OS.  This is complicated by the fact that I still have to work in a shop where the supported IS boxes are all Windows 7.

I'm a bit disappointed that open source support for Microsoft Exchange seems to be waning, as Evolution doesn't support newer versions of Exchange.

I'm very happy with Linux Mint 11, as it seems to correctly do a number of things that vanilla Ubuntu 11 doesn't do out of the box.

Right now I'm working on getting my development environment functional again.  I've used Component Software Diff on Windows for years, since it's no-nonsense, visually appealing, and usually just works.  Under Linux, I'm trying out Meld and followed a tutorial to get this working with git, though firing up Python just to launch another command-line tool seems a little overkill when this would suffice:
#!/bin/bash
meld $2 $5

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