On Monday 24 February 2003 01:31, Todd Slater wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 18:13:07 -0500 > > s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 23 February 2003 08:01 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > > I like the crisp and open feel of kmail and last but certainly not > > > least: Sylpheed is wonderful on lower spec laptops because it fires > > > up so quickly when using other desktops like xfce or icewm. > > > It just takes a few secs to have it up and running contary to > > > almost half a minute for evo, kmail and mozilla. > > > > oh cool. I was needing a suggestion for a p75/40mb laptop and was > > thinking I'd have to do mutt or pine, but will try sylpheed since you > > suggested it for low spec machines. > > > > any other mail clients for low spec machines that you know of? I can > > get X going with icewm on it and use a few apps. I was thinking > > link-graphic for browser and maybe slrn for news. Unless you know of > > a light gui news client that can talk to news server directly? > > > > thanks for your input. > > -s > > 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. > > Todd
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. 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. 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. Good luck, HarM
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