Back to Windows...

[Hervé Fache]

On 10/23/06, K S Balaji <balajiks2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was good to be using Ubuntu for about a month.  I lost my Thunderbird
> mails as I had to reinstall Ubuntu.  Even though I had a copy of the mails
> on CD, I could not restore them in the new installation even after going
> through various How Tos.

Why did you re-install Ubuntu?
Why do you say you lost your e-mails if they're on a backup CD?

> I had to remove Ubuntu and reinstall XP, buy a licensed software to convert
> my thunderbird mails to .eml format and print them.  Even though Ubuntu was
> free, I still had to pay heavily for it.

Did you try wine? A lot of win32 applications run quite well under it!
You could also have installed Windows in a VMware session... And why
that strange format? AFAIK, Thunderbird uses the (very common) mailbox
format.

> Ubuntu as well as Linux distros have a long journey to make before they can
> compete with Windows which I had to learn the hard way.  Now I have to get
> my XP activated again...:-(

Well, I happen to disagree, having to switch from Kubuntu back to
Windows XP at work. I would be more than happy that you actually
justify that sentence, just to see what you think Ubuntu lacks,
because I for sure can see what Windows lacks compared to Ubuntu!

Hervé.