Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:16:15 -0500 From: michael johnson <buhnux@gmail.com> To: shildreth@allantgroup.com Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <b2203fed0601110816x7cd0c887h1c20b796c5792a84@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com>
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On 1/11/06, Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com> wrote:
>
> At home, my machine is a 1 GHZ, with 768 mb of memory. I use xfce4,
> evolution, firefox, gnome-office, ...etc. It seems that with every
> upgrade, the 1GHZ cpu is not enough power anymore. I use evolution
> at work, but I am trying Thunderbird at home now. The new evolution
> is too slow on my home server. Thunderbird is better (less cpu
> intensive), but not snappy by any means. Plus I miss some of the
> features of Evolution, but this is straying from my question. Has
> anyone else noticed this issue or is everyone else running on faster
> processors?
I tend to agree 1GHz isn't enough anymore.. I have a 700MHz box
and it runs FreeBSD 4.8 with an old ports tree. I recommend using
older software for older *desktop* systems.
Thanks,
> STH
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> Scott T. Hildreth <shildreth@allantgroup.com>
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