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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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