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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. BFT by cadeon · · Score: 3, Insightful

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

    1. Re:BFT by poetmatt · · Score: 5, Insightful

      absolutely. I also agree with the commenter below, get rid of empathy and go back to pidgin, and then we'll be a step closer to ubuntu not being crap.

    2. Re:BFT by cadeon · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Because, Evolution has been a part of the default GNOME suite for a very long time, so as more functionality was built, developers could assume Evolution was there.

      Oops.

  2. About time by sakdoctor · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like "close to how I set things up anyway", so that I don't have to fight against stupid defaults all the time. Purge evolution, purge empathy, install thunderbird, install pidgin. Done. That was the appeal of Ubuntu.

    Though they've jumped the shark with unity, so ... I'll switch to Debian now I guess.

  3. Thunderbird is the best for Linux by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The only decent mail client on Linux is Thunderbird. Everything else crashes, locks up, and doesn't set up as easy.

    I've tried 'em all and every major release, I try them again - same result every time so far: crap.

    1. Re:Thunderbird is the best for Linux by ChrisMP1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Everything else crashes,

      I use Mutt. It's never crashed for me.

      locks up,

      I use Mutt. It's never locked up for me.

      and doesn't set up as easy.

      I use... ah hell, carry on. I would probably crash if I lost my muttrc...

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