Re: [Evolution] Why I must stop using Evolution

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist us>]

On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 16:05 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> It's not the OS, it's the distribution that's the issue - we all
> (mostly) run the same OS, i.e. Linux! (OK, I know there's some BSDers
> and Windows users out there - but you know what I mean.)
>
> But there does seem to be more problems with Evo on Ubuntu than on any
> other distro.  It's probably down to the way Evo, or one of the
> libraries it links to, has been configured/compiled.

Possibly.  Another possibility is that there are more people using the
newer versions of Evo on Ubuntu, so that's where you see more problems.
Most Red Hat Enterprise users, for example, are still using very old
versions of Evo.

Also, Ubuntu tends to not update to the latest Gnome point releases,
once the main release is made.  So it looks like Ubuntu 9.10 will ship
with Gnome 2.28.1, but if/when Gnome 2.28.2 is released, with various
Evo bug fixes, there will (typically) not be a build of that release for
Ubuntu 9.10.  This leaves Ubuntu perpetually without the latest bug
fixes.


I've no idea... but as far as I know Ubuntu doesn't do a lot of extra
patching to Gnome in general, so I'd be mildly surprised if there was a
major difference in stability between Evo on Ubuntu and, say, Debian.