Re: [Evolution] Evolution stopped fetching e-mails after Linux update

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> IMO any Evolution version 2.x is even for a long term support distro no
> good choice. It's not related to the issue, but GNOME 2, as well as a
> kernel 2.6.x are much too old, too. GNOME 2 is discontinued since a
> very, very long time and upstream released the last official 2.6 kernel
> in August 2011:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/
>
> Seemingly your kernel comes with a lot of patches, maybe security and
> also hardware related, but I've got doubts, that it's good to stay with
> such outdated software, even if it should be patched.
>
> Such a very long long term support is bizarre:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#End-of-support_schedule

Bizarre?? CentOS is just a re-compile of RHEL, so the support life is
down to RedHat and nothing to do with CentOS. So far from being
"bizarre", there must be very sound financial reasons for having such
an extended life - people must need it if they are willing to pay for
it.

And I assure you there are many things back ported into the RHEL source
tree.

> Assuming you should need to replace borked hardware, you might run into
> serious issues.

Never had any problems installing CentOS 6 (or even 5) on modern
hardware. You just have to make sure you have the most recent version.
(CentOS 6.1 has problems, 6.8 doesn't.)

> A few days ago I replaced my 9 years old mobo and CPU by something
> newer. Apart from a rolling release and the latest Ubuntu LTS I've got
> two "vintage" Linux installs on this machine. For those "vintage"
> installs, there seems to be no chance to get the graphics working with
> the wanted resolution and a reasonable vertical refresh frequency. It
> might be possible to get the network working, but by default it doesn't
> work.

CentOS 6 is not vintage. It is a current release.

> I'm _not_ speaking for any software developers or the Linux community,
> but I guess that not many developers and most people from most Linux
> communities are willing and/or able to help you with something that
> outdated. Consider to also send a request to a community used to this
> unusual long long term support distro, https://www.centos.org/ .
Once again, CentOS 6 is not outdated, it is current. CentOS doesn't
have any developers - it is a pure recompile of the RHEL source tree so
 any modifications and updates come from RedHat - but they won't listen
to you unless you have a support contract.

TBH the CentOS mailing list is likely to send people to the Evolution
mailing list - there are not enough specialised desktop people on that
list as most people use CentOS as a server OS, not a desktop one.

P.