[arachne] Re: Arachne and Open Suse?
- From: "Eric S. Emerson" <wildrice5@xxxxxxxx>
- To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2011 01:16:42 -0500
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Hi Rob,
glennmcc still prefers Slackware 12.2
Eric
On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 13:01:18 -0600 (CST) Rob <robo13@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
>
> So Eric, is there some consensus, on which BSD they think is better?
>
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Eric S. Emerson wrote:
>
> > Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >
> > Hi Steve,
> >
> > I was waiting for you to pop in on the BSD/Linux stuff .
> > What took you so long ?? I was getting worried.....
> > Over on glennmcc's AQCCC the big BSD debate
> > has been going on for the last few days. :-}
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:28:41 -0700 (MST) Steve
> <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > writes:
> >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
> >>
> >> 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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> >>
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