Re: [Evolution] new to evo

[Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam whitemice org>]

On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 12:43 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-06-26 at 07:22 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 20:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2015-06-21 at 17:56 +0200, Rudolf Künzli wrote:
> > This is generally true of any decent desktop environment - remember
> > that Microsoft releases updates about every other Tuesday!  And 
> > they
> > generally install automatically [unless you disabled that].
> I update my system every morning as a matter of course,

Which is probably far more aggressive than necessary for most users.

> what I'm talking about. Fedora brings out a new release every 6 
> months

6 months is a pretty aggressive time-line.

> and only supports the current release and the previous one. Releases
> over a year old will not get even critical security updates, so
> upgrading the release is something the sysadmin has to take specific
> steps to do.

Of course.  So there are (a) rolling releases or (b) distributions that
support in place updates [most these days, I would think?].  For
openSUSE (a) is Tumbleweed and (b) is "zypper dup" [Distribution
UPdate].

Anyway, either Fedora or openSUSE on a desktop should provide a
reasonably current installation of GNOME and/or Evolution.

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam whitemice org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA