On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 13:43, Scott Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 10:43 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > hehe.. Been using gnome since day 1 and I like it. Except for the SLow
> > HD accesses, it's OK(but since I tried out a desktop system 2.4G P4
> > W/512MB RAM,,, I know mine's slow)
> 
> My main laptop is a 1ghz with 256mb. Its been hanging in there quite
> well for all the abuse I give it. The spamd processes are all coming
> from evolution, and I haven't found (or, admittedly, really looked for)
> a way to get evolution to use the lightweight spamc talking to a
> long-running spamassassin daemon which would be a huge improvement for

I run spamassassin via sendmail milters. It does spawn a few childs but
at least its daemonised.

Evo is 1.4.



> VNC is probably consuming a bit of
> resources for you too. 

VNC is only used when I'm not within reach of the laptop. (gone down to
the lab for work etc.) I ssh into the laptop, run vncserver, and then
tunnel it from there.

> If you are reading your mail from other linux
> boxes, they can ssh in and tunnel the x screen directly without making
> your laptop keep a whole framebuffer and x server alive just for your
> mail. 

All other boxes are Windows. :-(

>  I'm always running gnome
> too, and rarely go without music. 

I'm sure there's a way to tunnel music off the doorstop as well.

>  maybe you
> should shoot for 768mb or more. 

I now have 2x256MB, I asked around for 1 stick of 1GB. It costs like
USD650 (directly from DELL) and USD400 (from other places)

That's a Lot of money for a country where the average working (just
started working) adult gets like USD600 per _month_.

:-(


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Ow Mun Heng
Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 
98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! 
Neuromancer 14:54:16 up 5:51, 8 users, 
load average: 0.91, 0.69, 0.49 


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