Same for me on Fedora, where I started with Fedora 7. I update my system in a daily manner and I upgrade to the next Fedora version the day it's released.
-- Rudolf Künzli - rudolf.kunzli@gmail.comSkype: rudolf.kunzli On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 11:11 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: > On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 16:15 +0200, Tom wrote: > > ... or better ask them to continuously upgrade to a recent version > > even in LTSs ! > > That's not possible. Evolution is a Gnome application, and relies > extensively on the Gnome infrastructure. It's not like Thunderbird > or > Firefox, for example, or even the kernel, which are essentially > stand-alone. Upgrading Evolution would mean you'd have to upgrade > all > of Gnome in the LTS, which is a complete non-starter (Evo does > support > one major version of Gnome back, but 14.04 uses Gnome 3.10). I mean, > what's the point of using an LTS then? Just get the latest Ubuntu! > > If you want a so-stable-it's-ossified distro, then use LTS and that's > what you get. If you want a nicely stable distro which has fairly > up-to-date software, then use a normal Ubuntu release. I personally > recommend Ubuntu GNOME actually. > > I'm really not sure why people are so wedded to LTS for home use: > I've > been using Ubuntu releases for over 10 years and upgrading regularly > and > I don't remember ever having anything of consequence broken. I > almost > always do an in-place upgrade, even, rather than installing from > scratch. I do usually wait a few weeks after release, just to let > any > brown paper bag issues clear out. > > For corporate use, I guess I can see the benefits of LTS. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
