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

[James Freer]

On Mon, Jul 9, 2012 at 11:54 PM, Juan R. de Silva
<juan.r.d.silva at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Jul 2012 11:27:39 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote:
>
>> http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/07/06/there-is-no-need-to-worry-about-
> thunderbird/
>>
>> How I understand that?
>>
>> 1. Thunderbird will continue receiving new security updates.
>
> It doesn't sound a lot for a product that never matured.
>
>> 2. They will not primarily add new features, but they haven't done that
>> very much ever before either.
>>
>> If you ever tried Thunderbird, I would ask you how often have you seen
>> new features in it.
>
> And this was exactly my point. To make such an application default for
> Ubuntu was an obvious mistake. And it is even more obvious now, after
> Mozilla decided to stall its active development.
>
> I use Evolution. It does has its problems but at is way more capable both
> as email client and especially PIM comparing with Thunderbird and its
> Lighting.
>
> IMHO Evolution is a mature product and its team probably could afford to
> stick to stability and security as some suggested. However, it is still
> in active development and improves or at least has a chance to do so.
>
> And what is Thunderbird now?.. Never matured application for which
> security updates are somewhat promised?..
>
> If this is an idea for a respectable distribution default email client
> and PIM.  Well... I have nothing more to say. I would just avoid a
> discussion on the subject from this point.
>
> Thanks.
>
> And, BTW, your signature does look way to long and out of place in your
> posts. :-)

I found both Evolution and Thunderbird poor for mail - just far too slow... RIP

Alpine was a great improvemnt and Gnus even better.

james