Evolution, Exchange, and Suse 9.3

Somewhere in a previous post I think I talked about my return to Linux and some of the challenges I was running into.

One of the greatest has been with Ximian - now Novell's Evolution mail client and the Ximian Connector software that enables Evolution to talk to an MS Exchange server.

Thinking that using the Linux distribution from the company that now owns Evolution would result in a better Connector experience, I installed Suse 9.3 Professional.

And........

Nothing. Although there was much to like about Suse's setup, Evolution and specifically the Connector portion of things were complete crap. Ximian Connector/Evolution performed worse than the same software running Fedora Core 3 or the latest Ubuntu.

So, at least for the time being, I continue to return to the first distro I installed - Ubuntu. It's not perfect, but things work well enough for me to continue using it.