Thanks, everyone, for all the help. I checked the memory use (using
"free") with Mozilla and a few other programs running. Memory use
never went much above 85MB out of a total of about 250) , so I don't
have to increase the swap partition, at least for now.
And I will try removing unnecessary software with dselect. I was
hesitant to do this. I guess I still have a "Windows" mindset
because so often I was unable to uninstall things cleanly. I would
always end up reloading the operating system. I got used to doing
this several times a year.
Hehe!
Mozilla is still a bit slow on my Pentium 200, so I'll try Galeon
and other browsers. The worst of it is typing. I'm using Mozilla
to compose this email and although I'm not an extremely fast typist
I'm finding that my keystrokes get ahead of the program's ability to
display the letters. Very disconcerting! I end up making lots of
mistakes! I'll have to check out other email programs as well.
Thanks, Peter Christensen
I have a P133 with 80MB RAM. I wouldn't even think about using
Mozilla. Opera is a nice lightweight browser and I sometimes use
konqueror to browse (but I don't use KDE).
For emailing I strongly (and a lot of people on this list will agree)
recommend exim/fetchmail/(procmailif you ned to)/mutt. It is
diffenrent to use but after a while you'll get used to it.
Configuration of my mail system was very easy, the Debian
installation did configure exim very well. All I had to do was to
configure fetchmail with fetchmailconfig. If your look for a graphica
MUA try kmail or balsa.
Frank
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