Evolution (was: Re: [plug] operating multiple e-mail clients)

[Kai]

I know my system's fairly slow (AMD K6/2 400 with 200 megs of RAM) but 
considering how fast Red Hat 6.2 runs on my firewall (Pentiuam 233 with 
64 megs of RAM) I would've thought 7.3 would run fairly fast too...I'm 
inclined to think if there was a way to turn off Sawfish it'd run a lot 
better ?

I haven't played with Linux on the desktop for a while so I've got a lot 
of catching up to do !
Any general suggestions on how to get 7.3 running faster would be 
appreciated.

Cheers

Kai

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Graham" <alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: Evolution (was: Re: [plug] operating multiple e-mail clients)


 > Probably iffy...  Evolution depends on a lot of ximian stuff, bonobo...
 > None of this is particularly lightweight.  I've just checked the list of
 > dependencies, and it's as long as several arms.  Having said that, I'm
 > running it on a PII 500, and it's lightning fast, unlike Nautilus, which
 > has similar dependencies but runs like a dog.  I suppose you've got to
 > try it, but I wouldn't hold out much hope.  The other issue may be disk
 > space.  You need all of the gnome installs, as well as bonobo, etc...
 > It's gotta be big.
 >
 > Alan
 >
 > On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 21:46, Harry McNally wrote:
 > > On 23 May 2002 21:21:57 +0800 Alan Graham 
<alan.graham at infonetsystems.com.au>
 > > wrote:
 > >
 > > > As an aside, use evolution.  I've tried Balsa, kmail and evolution
 > > > recently, and evolution is streets ahead.  Balsa's imap support is
 > > > ...flakey...  kmail is klunky, evolution just works.
 > >
 > > Hi Alan
 > >
 > > I've been setting up Sylpheed for inclusion in the new Computer 
Angels (debian)
 > > distro because it is fast for lightweight machines. I've seen 
people using
 > > evolution on mail I've received but haven't tried it. How do you 
thing evolution
 > > would go for a 90MHz 16MB P1 machine ?
 > >
 > > All the best
 > > Harry