Re: [Evolution] About performance

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Mon, 2013-05-13 at 13:54 -0400, Mark Filipak wrote:
> On 2013/5/13 8:30 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > Yes.  3.6.x is a major release back.  3.8.x *does* fix some performance
> > issues, especially related to flaky connections.  Or it certainly seems
> > that way to me.
> I'm new to Linux, Adam, so please excuse my ignorance. In my Linux virtual 
> machine I'm running Evolution version 3.6.2 and I've experienced sudden crashes 
> at start-up & while idle (not doing anything).

If you run the "evolution" command from the command line
[gnome-terminal] you may see text error messages upon the uninitiated
exit, they may be illuminating as to the reason.   But I did see such
behavior *rarely* in some versions of 3.6.x

This is generally true for UNIX apps; run them from the command line to
see stdout/stderr messags if you feel that something is amiss.

>  Evo 3.6.2 is what my Software 
> Manager fetched when I selected to install Evolution. How does a linux-person 
> get and, especially, install the latest version? (Simply pointing me to a web 
> site is fine.)

Packaging is always a distribution specific issue.   For openSUSE, for
example, there are repositories one can subscribe[via zypper] and update
to for the 'latest' versions of software.   That means someone has to
package it - but for mainstream software like GNOME that is almost
certainly being done by someone.

<http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2013/04/gnome-3-8-for-opensuse-12-3-go-get-it/>

So it will depend on what distribution you are using, and will probably
only be available to sit on top of the latest release of that distro.