[COLUG] Seeking recommendations for Linux distro for ancient laptop

[Rob Funk]

Duane wrote:
> 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 generally agree, although mutt's tagging feature is actually more 
efficient.  I switched away from mutt when I had to work with multiple 
IMAP servers/accounts, and also (at the time) it had trouble with large 
IMAP folders.  (It now caches those.)

> 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.

Yeah, Kmail does have trouble with megahuge IMAP mailboxes.  I regularly 
access mailboxes on the order of a few thousand messages, and it 
occasionally has a little trouble.  Mostly when it gets closer to 10000 
messages.

> 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.

My understanding is that GNOME uses more memory and is slower than KDE.
And of course KDE exposes more settings to the user.

This may interest you:
  http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html

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