Re: [Evolution] new to evo

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

On Tue, 2015-06-30 at 17:44 +1000, dean wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-06-29 at 16:56 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > 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:
> > > > 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.
>
> Just a fyi Debian is also a good choice. Stable is released every 2-3
> years and testing is a rolling release which includes Evolution 
> 3.16.3

I update my systems every day. It takes about 5 minutes for each one
which is not a "high price" when I consider that all of them are
running the most recent version.

The upgrade from Fedora 21 to Fedora 22 did run about 2 hours over the
network. It's worth to invest this time !

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