From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Sep 5 8: 0:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8FC37B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:00:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from minix.nailed.org (syr-24-59-50-41.twcny.rr.com [24.59.50.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E48AF43E65 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:00:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jontow@minix.nailed.org) Received: by minix.nailed.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F365760B; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:00:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:00:17 -0400 From: Jonathan Towne To: Philip Paeps Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What mail client for a computer newbie? Message-ID: <20020905110017.C34559@bd.local> References: <3D617400.1294.5D259729@localhost> <20020820151247.GP22500@juno.paeps.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20020820151247.GP22500@juno.paeps.cx>; from philip@paeps.cx on Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:12:47PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 05:12:47PM +0200, Philip Paeps scribbled: # On 2002-08-20 04:42:43, Dan Langille wrote: # > What mail client would you recommend for my mother? # # My mother's been using Evolution for a while, and I haven't heard any # complaints, and she appears to be communicating happily with the rest of the # world. Same deal here, my mother has been using Evolution for probably a little under a year with no complaints; I think its even a slightly older version.. # > To be fair, she's been using pine under FreeBSD for about a year now. Now # > that she's about to get a new computer, it's time to upgrade to a GUI (we're # > going with KDE). Indeed, if she's taken to the console, don't lead her astray.. its a bit more to-the-point than a lot of graphical muck.. # > She has the concepts of email now. But I want a simple interface. Try to # > think of this from a computer newbie point of view, not an X or FreeBSD # > point of view. # # I fear that KDE might be a bit too complex. All these funny bells and # whistles all over the shop. Might it not be better to install a 'light' # window manager instead? I doubt she'll be needing all the 'advanced' features # of KDE. Just a way to start the mailclient, the wordprocessor, the # spreadsheet, etc. KDE is a monster. I've had it running on her machine (a celeron 300 with 96meg of RAM), along with various forms of GNOME; all were 'pretty' .. but big, fat, and tended to cause a lot of disk thrashing. Now, she's using a nicely customized copy of fvwm2, with a bunch of nice keybindings (alt+F# etc) to switch between workspaces, a pager at the bottom so she can see whats going on, and an auto-hidden taskbar to keep things remnant of earlier days :) Hope you and your mother get things setup the way you hope for, its an interesting adventure.. and requires a lot less hardware than win* ;) -Jonathan Towne PS. anyone who wants the $HOME/.fvwm/ directory that I use on many machines; (including the .fvwm2rc and menu template), just send me a quick note and I'll see what I can do.. lots of email to catch up on though, so it could take a day or two. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message