On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 10:11, Jon Biddell wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 09:41, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > Hi, > > My neighbour is a 94 yo (that is not a mistake!) woman who has never > > used computers before but wants to have email and web browsing for some > > courses that she is taking. > > > > I have an old HP 333mhz machine that I am going to set up for her. > > Trouble is, a full RH installation is pretty sluggish on it. I thought I > > would skip Gnome and go for Icewm or Windowmaker, use Galeon as the web > > browser. What would be a decent simple graphical mail client? Evolution > > seems sluggish on the machine as well as being serious overkill. > > IceWM is fairly light and fast, and I'd look at using either Balsa or > (preferably) Kmail as the mail client.
Yes, I have IceWM on a laptop that I use now and again. Very smart. Thanks for the tip on Kmail - I'll have a look at it. Alan > > Jon > > > -- > -------------------------------------------- > Tony Blair phones George Bush and asks "What > proof do you have that Iraq has weapons of > Mass destruction", and Bush replies "We kept > the receipts !!" > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- ------------------------------------------------------ Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.law.usyd.edu.au/~alant Tel: +61 2 4782 2670 Mobile: +61 405 084 990 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
