> I was using RedHat 7.2 for a while and I actually liked the KDE setup, > although a bit heavy weight. But I also like how light-weight of a setup I > now have with Debian. (I suppose I'll need a desktop environment at some > point.)
You might give KDE 2.2.2 (from unstable) a try. It feels much lighter in Debian than RedHat. The nice thing is you could stick to a very light weight KDE here - maybe just kdebase, konqueror, and konsole - or something like that. > So, for graphical mail clients: Knowing that I'm coming from a simple life > with Eudora (and have never liked Outlook), any comments or simple > overviews of the following: That makes things easier than for Outlook users... > Evolution: Nice, although I hear it has a number of annoying bugs. Also it doesn't seem to handle GPG/PGP very well. If you use KDE, prepare for the fact it won't integrate at all. > Mahogany: Can't remember why I didn't like this one - I think it's contact manager was too light for my taste, IIRC. > Aethera: Personally, I see theKompany as a company without a clear vision. Aethera's latest beta is the buggest yet from what I have heard. It'd probably be wise to look elsewhere. This is a pure QT app now, it does not integrate with KDE, and Palm syncing requires a proprietary $10 product. > Balsa: Fine, although like Mahogany if you want anything more then the most basic contact management, look elsewhere. Let me recommend KMail. It's light weight, has a nice selection of features (including IMAP), a very nice contact manager, good speed on even very large folders (I'm on the SuSE list, and it only takes a matter of maybe 10 sec. on my old 450 MHz desktop for a 50,000 message folder to load). Small folders are very responsive. I moved from Outlook to KMail and I've been very pleased with it - it has a great interface. Oh, and the filters are very good too! > And not related to email, anyone have a replacement suggestion (other than > Emacs ;) for my old basic friend on the windows side of Program File Editor > (pfe)? If you are looking for a text-based interface, I'd recommend nano (a "pico" clone). For a GUI, Kate provides a very nice MDI interface, that seems like a light IDE. I really like both of these editors a lot. > I'd also like to find a nice client like SecureCRT for linux. Something a > little more feature rich than xterm. Well, if you want some kind of better shell, take a look at Konsole. It is nicely customizable, and you can run a bunch of sessions concurrently in one window. It works great. Best, Tim -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Universal Networks http://www.uninet.info Christian Portal and Search Tool: http://www.faithtree.com Open Source Migration Guide: http://www.ofb.biz ============= "Christian Web Services Since 1996" ==============