Thunderbird Unseats Evolution In Ubuntu 11.10

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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[Dan East]

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.

Re:BFT

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Cross platform helps.

[glwtta]

I have yet to see a windows version of Evolution.

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