[arachne] Re: Arachne and Open Suse?
- From: Steve <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:28:41 -0700 (MST)
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On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Ron Clarke wrote:
I like Arachne because I'm familiar with it, having used it for years
and I basically hate new software with thousands of feature I don't
need.
I am exactly the same. I find Sylpheed simple to configure and
customise.
I've been using Pine for so many years, it's second nature. I've never
found a mail program I like better... though I did slog along with
Netscape 3.04 for a couple of years when I was still dual booting DOS/Linux.
I run Pine on FreeBSD, but access it through an xterm on Linux. Any web
page links in e-mail can be "clicked" which open Midori running on
FreeBSD, displaying on Linux. PDF attachments? Open in xpdf on FreeBSD,
but display on the X display in Linux. I can watch a video running on
FreeBSD from Linux, but I don't have any speakers on the FreeBSD machine
so if I want to hear the video I copy it over to the Linux machine and
play it there.
There's a way to run the sound on FreeBSD and hear it out of the Linux
connected speakers, but I haven't bothered to figure that out (yet?).
The "why" of it... (as I'm sure some might wonder) is that I can leave
the low-powered Via C7 1.5 Ghz FreeBSD machine (<35 watts max) running
24/7 with web server, mail server, news server, etc. and during power
outages, I can shut the AMD 64 X2 Dual Core 5000+ Linux machine down, and
run the "essential" stuff off UPS battery for much longer.
I also have an Oregon Scientific weather station running:
http://wizard.dyndns.org/weather/ and a wireless webcam which works
when it feels like it. I guess the wifi signal from the cam is marginal
for passing through a refrigerator.
http://wizard.dyndns.org/
All this *could* be run from a single computer... but hey, multiple
machines just make it all the more fun, right? '-)
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