[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Duane]

Rob Funk wrote:

> For power there's mutt, but of course that doesn't exactly fit the 
> question.  Similar with Emacs-based Gnus or Rmail.

As much of a fan of nano as I am I find GUI email apps more efficient
especially when I need to drag a bunch of emails into sub folders etc.

> I think Kmail (my current choice) is smaller than Tbird, but I'm not sure 
> how much weight the KDE libs add if you're not already running KDE.

I've been testing out a few apps today and kmail seemed to choke when I
pointed it to my imap server, not sure if it's an SSL/TLS bug/issue or
the fact I have > 2G and > 65k emails.

I finally became extremely annoyed with how slow gnome is getting since
the dapper release of Ubuntu and I had a bit of time on my hands and I
installed xubuntu-desktop (meta package) and got up and running with
XFCE instead of gnome and when I found it "close enough" to my needs I
couldn't have been more gleeful then when I was dumping all the mono
crap from my system.

I've been pondering switching to KDE but there didn't seem to be much
gain in that so I never got round to it.

That said however xubuntu lacks a wireless gui util that can configure
WPA-EAP wireless settings and I test out apps as much for other people
as I do for myself so the only way round this is to install a KDE or
Gnome interface for the network manager.

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 Duane

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