This time to the list. Doh!
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On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 10:31, Stephen SLI27 Lindsay wrote:
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> Hello Alan,
> I'd recommend sylpheed. It's a gui point and click affair, it's very
> fast/lightweight, but does everything your neighbour should need. Doesn't
> need any of the gnome/kde libs either (just gtk) so you could possibly get
> away with installing less if you use it.
Thanks Steve - and to everyone who replied to this. I'm just looking at
sylpheed now - very quick.
Unfortunately, the whole thing may be academic since her nephew has
intervened. He is an Apple nut. There goes the world record. Bugger!
Cheers,
Alan
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Any suggestions much appreciated. And we might set a world record for
> the oldest first time Linux user!
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> Cheers,
> Alan
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