On Monday 24 February 2003 03:23 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > > certainly not least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec
> > > oh cool. I was needing a suggestion for a p75/40mb laptop and > > > Unless you know of a light gui news client that can talk to > > Sylpheed again! I can't vouch for its functionality with binary > > attachments and such, but for text-based news reading and posting > > it's quite nice. Oh man, it's getting nice. I installed it last night on my desktop to scope it out. I had checked it out a while back, but it even seems stable now. And it didn't do news then. Thanks for the suggestion. If I could get aa fonts in it I'd might use it all the time on my /fast/ machine. :) > Yep, and for graphical desktops that don't hog too much mem take a > look at busybox, xfce (my personal fancy) or windowmaker as well. I've tried xfce and windowmaker before, they seem okay. I've been hearing alot about this busybox lately tho. I just might have to check it out! :) > Do take as much load off the ram as possible by turning off as many > deamons (at boot) as you can, depending on the functionality you're > wanting. fer sure! > If it's still too slow for your liking: I get some very nice extra > speed using slackware8.1 instead of mandrake(at the cost of some > nice toys) but as always each distro has it's specific pro's and > cons. yeah, I had slack 8.1 running on it too. I didn't try to set X up on it tho, thinking it was gonna be a cli only box. Then I wanted to try mandrake adn during the text install I thought what the heck, see what it'll do. So after reboot, when X started up first try, I thought "cooool!!!" :D thanks for your input, -s
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