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
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