Did Ubuntu made bet on a dead horse? I wonder...

[Doug]

On 07/08/2012 07:12 PM, Students wrote:
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> Nick
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jul 9, 2012, at 4:51, "Juan R. de Silva"<juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> After reading this today:
>>
>> http://tiny.cc/4p74gw
>>
>> I wonder if the last Ubuntu decision to replace Evolution with
>> Thunderbird and Lighting as its default email and calendar suite was a
>> wrong bet.
>>
>> Luckily I never used Thunderbird, since I never liked neither it nor
>> Lighting.
>>
>>
> On Windows I've been using thunderbird for years. Perfect. No problems. On Ubuntu 12.04 I've lost many mail. It just gets deleted. So, I also lose them on my other servers. I love the Linux idea but I still don't understand their modus operandi. I just can't depend on it long term.
I've been using T'Bird on Linux (now on PCLOS) since I had to abandon 
KMail in SuSE 10.0 and I don't believe I've ever lost anything.  At 
least nothing that
wasn't my own fault!
--doug

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