From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 23:35:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF20D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.zer0.org (klapaucius.zer0.org [204.152.186.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2072543D46 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gsutter@zer0.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC763239A0F; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.zer0.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (klapaucius.zer0.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 61738-04; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail1.zer0.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9EC40239A0E; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:24 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 23:35:24 -0800 From: Gregory Sutter To: Wes Peters Message-ID: <20031229073524.GE25848@klapaucius.zer0.org> References: <20031225224609.A5326@cons.org> <200312260815.38447.wes@softweyr.com> <20031226204121.A21067@cons.org> <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200312271959.24684.wes@softweyr.com> Organization: Zer0 X-Purpose: For great justice! Mail-Copies-To: poster X-PGP-Fingerprint: D161 E4EA 4BFA 2427 F3F9 5B1F 2015 31D5 845D FEDD X-PGP-Key: http://zer0.org/~gsutter/gsutter.pgp X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at zer0.org cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Martin Cracauer Subject: Re: Power consumption in desktop computers X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 07:35:27 -0000 --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2003-12-27 19:59 -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > On Friday 26 December 2003 05:41 pm, Martin Cracauer wrote: > > > > I found that the requirment to run Mozilla Firebird outpaces this > > CPU. It's really too bad, if it wasn't for that thing I could happily > > run my old hardware forever. >=20 > Have you tried Opera? My laptop is a PII-300; Opera 7 runs quite nicely= =20 > and Firebird takes 3 or 4 minutes to start. There are a few things Opera= =20 > doesn't do, or doesn't do well, but I usually just avoid those (flash,=20 > for instance.) KDE apps also run just fine on this old, slow hardware. I second the Opera 7 recommendation; I run it on my P2-400 laptop and have grown used to its speed and versatility. Running the Linux Opera binary allows the flashplayer to be used; in Opera 7 this works quite well. As can be expected, the Flash apps suck CPU but at least the Flash navigation menus should be usable. The Acrobat and Real plugins also work with linux-opera. Opera's session management is unmatched as well; it's another must-have browser feature now that I've experienced it. Greg --=20 Gregory S. Sutter "How do I read this file?" mailto:gsutter@zer0.org "You uudecode it." http://zer0.org/~gsutter/ "I I I decode it?" --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQE/79k8IBUx1YRd/t0RAu+mAJwKEPo3MRU/kIwSFBTgwn91OEogCQCdFTJf 4iVFyqU47QyINr6ATutqbVI= =8/A1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i3lJ51RuaGWuFYNw--