Re: [Evolution] Evolution not starting (SanthanaKrishnan)

["Tom, Yahoo" <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk>]

Hi  :)
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS is officially supported for another 4 years, which is
a massive advantage over other distros.  I hadn't thought about that
factor at all.

I think quite a lot of people upgrade to a newer version of Ubuntu
every 2 years = so jumping from 1 of their LTS releases to the next
without doing any of the ones in the middle.  So Ubuntu 12.04 LTS -
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and then waiting until the end of April (4th month)
next year (2016) to get the 16.04 LTS.


However, i still find it very odd that Evo people have been
recommending Ubuntu.  So far each different person's has recommended 2
or 3 distros with Ubuntu being in each different list.  Usually people
on this mailing list seem to be quite scathing or even hostile to
Ubuntu so i was hoping to see more suggestions for other distros to
see what people do like.

CentOS is same family as Fedora isn't it?  So that might be
advantageous for command-line stuff?  Scientific Linux is in the same
family (Redhat family) as CentOS that no-one has mentioned but i
thought had a good reputation.

openSuSE do some really great stuff so it was good to see someone
recommend them.

There was at least 1 other good suggestion that i have lost track of.

Regards from
Tom :)



On 11 January 2015 at 15:48, Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org> wrote:

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> +1  LINUX has a variety of distributions ... because those distributions
> have distinct target audiences.  Fedora is a distribution for
> *developers*, hackers, etc...
>
> And there is CentOS and others like Ubuntu LTS that are for slow change
> long life-cycle.
>
> I use openSUSE as I feel it rests somewhere in between, and it has a
> Desktop rather than a Sever focus [which is a downside of something like
> CentOS].

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