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# History
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[October 1998: Sunbird begins life as 'Zulu'](https://web.archive.org/web/19991011010018/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/)
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- With the stated aim of supporting iCalendar (still one of its huge advantages).
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- "Zulu is the next-generation calendar client currently under development for Netscape Communicator."
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[December 2001: 'Zulu' is renamed 'Mozilla Calendar'](https://web.archive.org/web/20011211125739/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/)
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According to the webpage from the time, it still was not a 'released' product, and needed to be compiled by users.
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Stated aims at this point:
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- "The Mozilla Calendar project is meant to create an open source, standards based calendar solution."
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Firefox extension.
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[August 2002: 'Mozilla Calendar' adds Windows and Mac support](https://web.archive.org/web/20020802223115/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/)
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it started to appear below the Sunbird project on the Mozilla website.
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[2007: Lightning starts to be prioritised](https://web.archive.org/web/20070528183038/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/sunbird/index.html)
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In a bold move, Mozilla start to position Lightning above Sunbird on their
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official website. Though both projects are still in development under
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the umbrella 'Mozilla Calendar' project.
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[April 2010: Mozilla announce Sunbird's 'last version'](https://web.archive.org/web/20100404032000/http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/)
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"This is the last public Sunbird release by the Calendar Project.
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We recommend upgrading to Thunderbird 3 and Lightning 1.0 beta1."
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# Quality
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The reason Sunbird is so good is that it was in active development for 15 years
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or more, by whole teams of developers and designers. This is a level or resources
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not typical of open source projects, and it shows in the quality of the product, which
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is still one of the best desktop calendars for Linux today.
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Sunbird's excellence is a result of the 15 years or more during which it was
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actively developed by whole teams of programmers and designers. This abundance
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of resources is not typical of open source projects, and it shows in the
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quality of the product, which is still one of the best desktop calendars for
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Linux today.
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# Installation
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archives, checks a SHA256 hash to verify the integrity of the download, and
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then extracts the files, installs the application, icons and desktop entry.
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Requirements: gtk2
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Library requirements: gtk2
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