On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 23:29:13 +1200 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:23:28PM +0200, Benedek Frank wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 14:57:01 +0300 > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [..] > > Yes, I have slypheed now myself too, but I didnt go for the -claws version, > > as "apt-cache search sylpheed" showed the -clwas version as the "bleeding > > edge email client", so I went for the regular "sylpheed". It seems a bit > > old school, but I like it already more than kmail, first it starts fast, > > second VERY IMPORTANT for me, it allows me to set the amount of days it > > will delete the messages from the server after it was received. So I am > > inlove with sylpheed, and I finished looking for email clients. Of course I > > had a rough half-day of converting maildir to mbox, but I am done with it > > now, and I imported it successfuly. It is quite good now. > > Line wrapping doesn't seem to hot ;-) > > > > For the record, my machine comes up with a bit > > > under 30M ram usage running wdm, X, rxvt terminal with a screen session > > > runn > > I'm running a mighty 133Mhz Compaq Armada 4130T with a whopping 49M of > RAM on a 1.2GB HD. It suprises me that soon as new technology comes out > all the older machines are considered worthless. OK, the CDROM is > starting to crap out sometimes (have to eject + close few times) and > floppy drive doesn't work. Still got PCMCIA US Robotics Sportster 28,000 > card. > > I don't use X much, but window maker with abiword when needed. It is a > shame to see good workhorses being used as landfill :-( > You may want to look into ratpoison, just about the most minimalistic and completely keyboard based window manager. Also, I am not sure if it will work, but you may be able to run abyword on frame buffer without X (the gtk libraries are available for frame buffer, but you may need to recompile things yoursef though). > > Wow, that is outstanding. I am using 70MB after boot, with all what I have, > > one xterm session, and the sylpheed open, with X and XFce. That is way > > better than about 10MB free (now 190MB free) when I used KDE and KDM and > > all the K***crap. I am happy I started this thread, and I want to thank you > > all for helping. Of course I still keep looking for good ideas. At the end, > > I will make a website from what I learnd. > > Should set linewidth to approx 72 characters. > > I was happy with a 386 for a couple of years, and yes its still running > slink!, but it is soooooo slooooowwww :-) I am building up a desktop > from scratch based on a MSI K8N Neo4 mobo. So my advice is if you are > running old hardware *don't* try anything faster because you won't like > going back to it. :-) I guess when I have my 64bit desktop machine > finished and running I will need to upgrade my laptop. :-( > > -- > Chris. > ====== > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
