Oddball said the following on 06/16/2012 11:10 AM:
[...] Nothing specific. I am using several lt's or pc's. The one i wanted to use sm for is an eeepc: it is compact and uses little resources. It also shares code, so i heard, which seems to make it faster.
Faster than what? 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! 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. -- Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later. - Og Mandino -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org