As a part of GNOME Evolution is released as source code. Linux distributions provide packages of GNOME for end-users. Evolution is used as the default personal information manager on several Linux distributions which use GNOME by default, most notably Debian and Fedora. Ubuntu has replaced Evolution with Mozilla Thunderbird as the default e-mail client since version 11.10, Oneiric Ocelot.
Defunct Mac OS X and Windows portsIn the past Evolution was ported to Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, but these ports are no longer developed.
In 2006 Novell released an installer for Evolution 2.6 on Mac OS X. At this time the download link no longer works. In January 2005, Novell's Nat Friedman announced in his blog that the company had hired Tor Lillqvist, the programmer who ported GIMP to Microsoft Windows, to do the same with Evolution. Before this announcement several projects with the same goal had been started but none of them reached alpha status. In 2008 DIP Consultants released a Windows installer for Evolution 2.28.1-1 for Windows XP and newer. Currently it is not available for download anymore.
A slightly more recent experimental installer for Evolution 3.0.2 is provided by openSUSE. Users have faced difficulties getting this version working.
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