Re: opensuse on laptop

In message <slrnfsoogo.tsq.houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Duncan Kennedy wrote:

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

According to the guys who have one and quote free space.

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.

As I don't have it on my EEE I'm not sure whether Thunderbird or Kmail - or both - are installed.

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

[Snip]

Great fun if you have the time and knowledge. Unfortunately I have a web development business which undertakes to update client websites within 4 hours of receipt of the material 24/7. I often work on trains, buses - even park benches. My days of using the command line for day to day purposes ended back even before DOS, when I used to have to write my own applications in a variety of BASICs, bits of machine code and Assembler. Too long ago now and I have no desire to go back there. It's OK for getting Thunar to see the LAN or altering root configuration files but that's really enough for me at the stage I'm at. Just try typing a long series of commands in a terminal on a tiny keyboard and finding you hit a wrong key when the train jolted - again. :-(

Means I need a good desktop, bitmap graphics, vector graphics, good FTP client to access a series of client sites, web development tools, T-Mobile G3 Modem, WiFi, Bluetooth phone modem, land-line modem (not built into the EEE despite the socket) and wired network. Linux does offer all of these and I have most of them running on eeexUbuntu on a little (1ins) external USB drive. I can live with the small screen when I don't have the car to carry a bigger notebook and I can plug into a client's monitor for demo purposes. I do need something like KDE or Gnome - preferably the former.

I find XFCE's Thunar file manager with its lack of built in LAN viewing of shared computers / files not to my taste - never had this trouble with SUSE - or even Ubuntu with Gnome or KDE. (Yes I *have got Thunar to see my LAN but only with much effort and cursing at the terminal window and a lot of help from the EEE user group.)


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Duncan K
Downtown Dalgety Bay
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