Re: opensuse on laptop

Duncan Kennedy wrote:
UK has only a 2Gb solid state "hard" drive. The 4Gb ones have much more
room.

You sure?

Put it this way:

But are you sure that the 4Gb has more room then the 2Gb. ;-)

the out of the box 2Gb one is so tight that it doesn't have a POP3
email application installed (or a couple of other things.)

Yet they probably have a lot of other stuff that you do not need.

I got Thunderbird onto it but that left only about 640Mb. The 4Gb one
comes with Thunderbird and / or Kmail but has well over 1 Gb free.

Kmail means KDE which means waste of space, Thunderbird is also not
known for it being small.

I would be lost without a POP3 email application. It doesn't follow
that the 4 GB version gives you a whole 2GB more - more useful
applications.

No, it will use more space for things you do not need, like Thunderbird
or Kmail.

Now let mee see what I have for email.
fetchmail 2.1M recieve mail from pop3, imap, ...
mutt 159K reading the mail
vim 1.5M Writing the mails
postfix 5.5M Sending the mails
grepmail 138K Search mailboxes
wmdrawer 96K GUI mailbox warner
xterm 10K To show the mail

That is around 10MB. This can be even less:
4.1M /usr/share/doc/packages/postfix
1.3M /usr/share/doc/packages/fetchmail

That makes it less then 5MB

Thunderbird is 26.2 MB
Kmail itself is already 5.2MB and it needs a lot of other things.

What I have is not even looked after for size.

People *have put cut down versions of full distros onto 2GB but that
leaves a problem with large mail attachments if you're away for a couple
of weeks.

Use USB keys for storing atachments. Size is not important anymore. I
have something like this: http://tinyurl.com/3cl7ws
I also have a microSD to MiniSD to SD adapter that came together with a
USB adapter, so basicaly somethinf like http://tinyurl.com/2t6net and
http://tinyurl.com/2k4kur
The microsd is available in 8GB. Takes up less space then a dual layer
DVD. :-D
There are 3 USB connections, so that is a wopping 24GB to your disposal
at the same time. Something the size of a matchbox or a lighter could
hold many of them.¹

There is even one report of a guy getting a cut down XP onto
2Gb (the driver CD is in the box) but that seems to be defeating the
aim. A 20 second boot with native Xandros and about 40 seconds with a
slowish external USB drive running EEExUbuntu is good, compared to XP.
I'm hoping to get something roughly similar from SUSE eventually

No idea about the openSUSE system. It does not run KDE, but vmfw (or
whatever it is called). I would have replaced that with IceWM. That way
you have something small that still looks good. IceWM is around 10MB, f
you add the themes. There is a 808K version available for openSUSE 10.3
as well, called icewm-lite.

Compare THAT to the huge 8MB foe fvwm2 plus another 3.3M for the themes.

¹The only thing that holds you back is money. ;-) If I would take
multiple with me, I would be first looking for a sturdy smal box, the
size of a matchbox. In that I would put some hard foam. In that foam, I
would put a small insercion, so that the microSD cards can be put into
it like a wedding ring. Just more then one next to the other.
Something like this: http://www.foamexpress1.com/Packaging/pack1.jpg
Much smaller and also denser.

If you only need to cary a few with you, you could use a condom
keyholder. :-D

houghi
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