I use windows because: 1. I have a licence for XP which came with my laptop, why not use it, it's paid for. 2. I previously had FC2 as my OS, but, it fell over with a filesystem error and lost half of the HDD. Luckily I managed to recover the home directory. When I went to re-format the laptop, my FC2 cd's had gone bad (I am constantly amazed at how many CDR's and even DVD-R's I have, which over the last year have just decided that they don't want to be read anymore). I would have to wait 3 weeks to get hold of any Linux distro so I just put winXP on it and I can't be bothered to go through another re-install to switch back to linux. I have not had any trouble with Thunderbird under XP. Did you try the latest version? I remember I tried 0.7 and it was awlful, 0.9 seems great though. Sometimes you tell it to collect mail, and although the status bar at the bottom doesn't tell you it's collecting, it does. Robert B. wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Justin Fielding" > > > >>Hail the revolution. Why is anyone using OE these days? Thunderbird >>0.9 is stable, full of features and it will import all of your data >> >> > >I beg to differ about the alleged "stability". I've tried using thunderbird >repeatedly on two separate WinXP systems, and on both systems there are >annoying glitches. For example, on my windows XP desktop thunderbird often >refuses to check for mail, even after asking it to. It's like it freezes up >and just won't open any sockets. I won't completely rule out user error >here, but I've been through the options set up more than once, and it >happens only often enough to be a problem. On the linux/bsd boxes >thunderbird runs quite well, and I use it whenever a GUI is loaded. > >So perhaps the *real* question is why do I still use windows? It was >required at the university, but now that I'm out I ask myself that every >day, and am in the process of converting over to FreeBSD. I've even taken >to writing lengthy reports using VI, and rapidly become annoyed when I have >to use the mouse for anything at all. (I was pleased to see threads along >both of these lines last week) > > > >_______________________________________________ >http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive >View/change your membership options at >http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > _______________________________________________ http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist