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 ! _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
