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Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10

Posted by Unknown on from the outlook-clones-no-longer-cool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Coinciding with the recent release of Mozilla Thunderbird 5 and its 400 performance and stability fixes, Canonical has decided that it's now fit for adoption in Ubuntu — and as of version 11.10, Thunderbird will replace Evolution as the default mail program. You can download the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 today and give Thunderbird a whirl."

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  1. Download by Dan+East · · Score: 5, Funny

    You can download the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 today and give Thunderbird a whirl.

    Wow, you have to download and install an entire OS distribution to try an email client.

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  2. Re:BFT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've always hated evolution. Thunderbird is much cleaner.

    Look, can you religious nut-jobs take your "intelligent design" and thunder throwing sky gods elsewhere? Evolution is a well founded scientific...

    What? Email programs?
    *Ahem* Sorry for the interruption, carry on.

  3. Re:Cross platform helps. by glwtta · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have yet to see a windows version of Evolution.

    It's been around for a while: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/

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