> > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:37:39 -0400 > From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Evolution] Moving to Evo from Thunderbird? > To: Chris Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: evolution-list@gnome.org > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:38 -0500, Chris Williams wrote: > > > That's very true on my Ubuntu system... Thunderbird is the more stable > > > of the two clients. However, I put up with it. > > > On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:46 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Without wanting to start a religious war, it's been my personal > > > > experience that Evo crashes and/or hangs a lot more than TB on the same > > > > platform (many versions of Fedora using KDE). Despite this, I use Evo > > > > nearly all the time because I'm comfortable with it (maybe that's why I > > > > see more problems :-) > > > > I can't be the only exception to this. I've been using Evo since > > it's .9x days on various flavors of Fedora Core, and recently Ubuntu. > > In all this time, I have only seen Evo crash a handful of times. My > > initial impression is that Exchange users are the ones that seem to > > suffer the most, is that the case? > > Not for me. I don't have any Exchange accounts. > > > Admittedly, I only use Evo to check 5-7 IMAP accounts and occasionally a > > Groupwise account. I guess I just wanted to comment that there are > > cases where Evo has, and continues to be rock-solid for some users. > > No doubt, but in a way that's actually more worrying. i.e. Evo works for > some people most of the time and for other people not so much. Evo in > all its incarnations has had variable levels of reliability for me, on > two different machines, always using Fedora and KDE. The distro packages > have I think been more reliable than self-compiled versions, which might > mean something. Right now I'm using a self-compiled 2.12.1 on F7 with > all distro updates installed and the entire UI freezes every few seconds > when I'm typing, when changing folders, and when (apparently) contacting > the IMAP server, plus evolution-alarm-notify sometimes eats 100% of CPU > and has to be killed (I notice because I monitor my CPU temperature!).
> > poc > Hi Patrick, A few years ago I used to get freezing of the GUI and a stalled or interrupted flow of text when typing. One of the guys in a LUG that I haunt, suggesting checking my network settings, especially the hosts file. So apart from having 127.0.0.1 localhost I added 127.0.0.1 andrew.Family.home andrew to the hosts file, and everything picked up speed, and no more freezing. YMMV Cheers -- Andrew Greig Community Distributor OpenOffice.org Melbourne, Australia _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
