Anton Aylward schreef:
Oddball said the following on 06/16/2012 11:10 AM:
Faster than what? Faster than a heavy added TB fi... But i am not one that sanctifies an app or any tool.. If one gives me, what he/she thinks, a better one, I'll try it, and find out for myself what it is for me. The whole Linux model relies on shared libraries.
How much do firefox and thunderbird share? I'm sure there's a way to find out, looking at the loaded libraries when both are running. But the real speedup of the eeepc is the SSD. Oh, and memory. Add all the memory you can! In fact, Sm's predecessor is Netscape. Browser, with built in E-mail client and composer. SSD is OK, no moving parts in a hdd, best ever for a laptop.. I've put a 64GB in it, to be able to use several os's on it, which i do. Not yet put in all the ram it can have. For oS11.4 absolutely unnecessary, runs like a charm on it, from the start. XP, which was delivered with it, runs int problems always, because it doesn't matter how much space it has, it always clutters up the disc, so it can't find its own files anymore, and jeopardizes its registry. The virus-scanner, one cannot do without slows down the rest
Ah right. run ldd on /lib/firefox/firefox and /lib/firefox/components/*.so and on /lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin and /lib/thunderbird/*.so and on /lib/thunderbird/*.so and see how much the thunderbird side and the firefox side have in common. I seem to recall that both use the same rendering engine. I suspect both use the same 'hooks' mechanism for add-on as some add-on seem to be able to be shared.
I don't care for the compromises that seem to result from 'all-in-one' tools. Me neither. If the tools do what i want, or expect them to do, i am ok with them. But when you checkout new apps, you'll have use them to know what they're capable of, and what not. True but reading this and other lists its clear that often you don't know what they are capable of until you've used them for a while and stretched their limits. For example we had a thread here recently with someone who didn't, at first, see how to use Thunderbird to read USENET.
Sorry, i must have missed that, as i did not read mail from the list for over more than a year, and just recently decided that openSUSE11.4 on my eeepc needed wifi to work with wpa2/tkip...
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