Re: most efficient OS for latest mutt on old pc hardware

[Harold Stevens]

In <favth0$pm7$1...@utornnr1pp.grouptelecom.net> simplr:

> What's the most efficient OS for running the latest standard

http://www.freebsd.org/

JMO; YMMV; HTH...

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[Alain Bench]

Hello Harold,

On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 1:37:49 +0000, Harold Stevens wrote:

> In <favth0$pm7$1...@utornnr1pp.grouptelecom.net> simplr:
>> What's the most efficient OS for running the latest standard mutt
> http://www.freebsd.org/

One problem with FreeBSD is that its locale and charset features are
not very sophisticated. Mutt runs very well on FreeBSD, and there is a
lot of happy users to prove it. But Mutt runs yet better on some other
systems, like Glibc ones, where it can take advantage of the way more
advanced and accurate locale-related functions.

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[Alejandro Lieber]

On 2007-08-28, simplr <simpl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What's the most efficient OS for running the latest standard

> mutt on the oldest pentium-compatible hardware? The aim is
> to set up a system that is extremely reliable, low
> vandal-risk, connecting to the net via dialup ppp, running
> mutt, an editor, and as little else as possible; maybe boot
> from an ide-compactflash adapter.

I run MUTT in a 40Mhz 386 with 8Mby memmory with Basic Linux
with no problem.

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