POB/London

Hello! Have just started using SuSE 8.1 Pro and KDE 3.0.3 at home, as my only OS 8) after years of fighting with various incarnations of Windoze. My question is this: What can replace my old faithful Eudora? I spend hours working at an e-mail client screen, so it's gotta be good! I'm managing about 10 mailboxes and lots of complex threads of mail, with various attachments + file sharing. Diary features are not a must. I reckon these are my options: KMail - small, easy, very limited (no HTML composing) - good enough? Opera M2 Mail - I browse with it, and it's pretty, but how powerful? Ximian Evo - I'll have to upgrade to SuSE 8.2: worth it? Some other thing I've never heard of - go on, educate me! Cheers people. Hope you can help! 8) 8)

Hello folks, I'm using SuSE 8.1 Pro on a 1GHz AMD machine w/ 512Mb of RAM. The machine has two disks, but the Linux one is an 80Gb, which is about 4% full. Apps work fine once they've started (the machine doesn't hang or anything), but this takes AGES! Loading a Konqueror file manager window, for example, takes about 30 seconds. I have looked through startup logs and all my vonfig options, but I can't see anything amiss. There are no rogue / looping processes I don't think. Any ideas? Anyone else had this? Thanks! BTW, I'm a newish Linux user. I went over from the ubiquitous W2KPro recently at home, but I still use Solaris at work. PS > JUst ask for any screenshots etc, I can upload them....

Nothing unusual there, surely? Ta for the help, by the way.

2:20am up 9:57, 3 users, load average: 0.10, 0.28, 0.41 72 processes: 64 sleeping, 8 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped CPU states: 3.9% user, 2.3% system, 0.0% nice, 93.6% idle Mem: 498340K av, 447824K used, 50516K free, 0K shrd, 125300K buff Swap: 642560K av, 2288K used, 640272K free 122540K cached PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 1995 lmiller -51 0 5488 5488 3984 S 2.5 1.1 16:07 artsd 8548 lmiller 15 0 28940 11M 9344 R 1.7 2.4 0:01 kdeinit 1845 root 15 0 46748 29M 3400 R 0.9 6.0 32:11 X 8851 lmiller 15 0 964 964 756 R 0.9 0.1 0:00 top 8848 lmiller 15 0 7452 7452 4544 R 0.1 1.4 0:00 xmms 1 root 15 0 236 236 204 S 0.0 0.0 0:04 init 2 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 34 19 0 0 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:01 kswapd 5 root 25 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 bdflush 6 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kupdated 7 root 16 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kinoded 9 root 19 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 mdrecoveryd 13 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 kreiserfsd 74 root 0 -20 0 0 0 SW< 0.0 0.0 0:00 lvm-mpd 568 root 15 0 668 668 548 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 syslogd 571 root 15 0 1060 1060 428 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 klogd 607 root 15 0 0 0 0 SW 0.0 0.0 0:00 khubd 1119 bin 15 0 404 404 320 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 portmap 1215 root 18 0 1568 1568 1296 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 sshd 1525 root 15 0 2500 2500 1340 S 0.0 0.5 0:00 cupsd 1554 root 16 0 668 668 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 dhcpcd 1798 root 15 0 1452 1452 1136 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 master 1812 postfix 15 0 1728 1728 1360 S 0.0 0.3 0:00 qmgr 1823 root 15 0 664 664 572 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 kdm 1824 root 15 0 1376 1376 1152 S 0.0 0.2 0:00 smpppd 1843 at 15 0 328 300 244 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 atd 1862 root 15 0 576 568 476 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 cron 1878 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1883 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1884 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1885 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1886 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1887 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1888 root 15 0 632 628 504 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 nscd 1897 root 16 0 972 964 808 S 0.0 0.1 0:00 kdm 1910 root 16 0 492 492 424 S 0.0 0.0 0:00 mingetty

Thanks a lot! I use Elm and Pine at work, so it's nice to get away from command-line softare if possible.... As for mozilla, I reckon the Opera client's just as good, if not better... and I've never really got on with that piece of software (bad experiences a few years ago!). So, looks like I should try and get started with upgrading to SuSE 8.2 (or even 9.0). I emailed their support people, who said that the support period for 8.1 has now expired. They suggested getting a professional to install 9.0, or getting a walk-through from a bulletin board. I agree with you about Kmail - nice & stable, but I have a couple of problems. Firstly, I can't get attachments to be handled properly by the mail server - they get converted to text, no matter what format they're sent in, Grrr. The other problem is attached. If it wasn't for this issue (which incidentally involves my mail sending persona), I would be reasonably happy to use Kmail for the foreseeable future.