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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago

Nice! A big thanks to the dev team that keeps this project going. Can't wait to see what finds its way into K9 (and the rebrand!).

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Thanks for reminding me to check my emails.

Also Thunderbird is great. Big thanks to the developers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

Imho the card view redesign was more than needed, thank you!

Big kudos to the thunderbird team, since the supernova announcement they've done a really good job

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The new inbox is a lot easier on the eyes. I'm loving it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I honestly love the new nested replies in email chains they added to the inbox view a few months ago. It makes a messy inbox so much less messy looking

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yea it looks awesome, another W for the open-source community!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i've been on it for a while since i'm on the beta channel but it's such a nice release. the thunderbird does good work and i urge you to do a monthly donation to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Gonna second this! They deserve every penny they get!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lets test that exchange feature right away!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Exchange features aren't in yet. They plan to release it in a 128.x version as it wasn't ready for today due to technical reasons.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The article explains its available as an experimental option tucked away in the options

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Better than releasing unfinished stuff. We are talking about a syncing protocol and potential data loss here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks very slick, just wished i had the paid version of proton to be able to try it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought Proton Mail's free tier offered third party email client support, it just needed some kind of decryption thingy running in the background?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah no the decryption thingy is a feature of the paid plan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not to be that guy, but they fixed the IMAP data eating bug in 128 right? Somebody put me at ease please.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did they find a way to cram even more stuff into the title bar?

[–] atzanteol 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't click to raise thunderbird from behind another window without clicking on something "functional" anymore...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Man, I'm having such a bad day for trying to click on "dead space" on a window where there is none. Sounds like tbird drove off the same cliff.

[–] atzanteol 3 points 1 month ago

Hrm.. I just changed (in KDE) "right click" in inactive windows to be "Activate and Raise" rather than "Activate, raise and pass click". I never liked this behavior for left-click before, but maybe having it as a right-click will help.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Apart from the message filter bar...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Looks like it may be time to see if I like Thunderbird over Evolution again. Does it support Exchange sync natively yet?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

How I wish Firefox forked and ran like this rather than be beholden to the ad money of Google.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Once your concussion goes away, you should rewrite this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Lol. If you replace “with” with “wish” it should make more sense.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's unfortunately no getting around that maintaining a secure and performant web engine is a highly expensive endeavour. There's a reason why it's just Google, Mozilla, and Apple left (and Apple doesn't even try to implement all the web standards).

If not Google, it'd probably be Bing, or some other extremely wealthy company trying to get something out of Mozilla.

Every time Mozilla has tried to diversify their income, people complain about them trying to make money/commercialise. I mean I don't like it either, but they're in a tough spot.

They're seen as evil bastards if they take money, and they're seen as evil bastards when they try to make money.

At least with Google there's a possible antitrust case if they suddenly pulled funding, given their market position, and that gives Mozilla a bit more leverage than I think they'd get with other deals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not disagreeing on them being in a tough spot when they try making money, but the corporate side of Mozilla does some shady financial stuff, only to pay their CEO.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago

Would break the fingers of the designer who, starting with 115, messed up the layout and removed the ability to keep tabs at the top of the window. Why the hell should I search there? What was the problem with searching in the toolbar?