Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:19:12 +0100 From: piotr.smyrak@heron.pl To: ahze@ahze.net,shildreth@allantgroup.com Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What type of hardware are you using? Message-ID: <20060111190915.M77841@heron.pl> In-Reply-To: <b2203fed0601110816x7cd0c887h1c20b796c5792a84@mail.gmail.com> References: <1136994833.11930.62.camel@scotth.emsphone.com> <b2203fed0601110816x7cd0c887h1c20b796c5792a84@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 11 Jan 2006 11:16:15 -0500, michael johnson wrote > 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. My desktop is 700 Mhz Duron at 256 Mb, and a 366 Mhz laptop with 128 Mb and I have to say I am satisfied with GNOME performance, and I also want to add it improved a lot during the 2.x tree life. But I use Evo only to store addresses. It's much too heavy for other work, I tried, but it lasted only a week or so. For mail I can happily suggest Sylpheed and Sylpheed-claws, both GTK2 apps now. Mezz already mentioned Opera as a nice browser alternative, so I won't repeat. I have now a working port of Contacts, Open-Hand addressbook for Evolution Data Server. So I have been hoping to fire Evolution from the addresses job as well, but I recently noticed it is in some ways incompatible with Evolution. I plan to PR it when things straighten out. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
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