[UCLA-LUG] Evolution

[Frederick Lee]

On Wed, 3 May 2000 01:58:13 -0400 (EDT), said Matt Helsley <larva@lillith.mit.edu>:
>On Tue, 2 May 2000, Erik Hovland wrote:
>> Except for available bandwidth concerns why not just use the gui from
>> the remote box using the ssh X tunnel? Any machine worth it's salt by
>> having ssh would therefore also be able to use X and this secure
>> tunnel.
>> 
>> POP has a way to be used over ssl or ssh and IMAP from the beginning
>> has supported ssl although few admins use it.
>Hmm... we can tell who ISN'T using a 28.8 net connection at home... :)
>Sorry, but even twm over ssh at 28.8kbps (MAXIMUM) is unbearable.

However, running Netscape off a very fast machine, remote, over a 28.8kpbs
modem, when your home box is a P5/100 with only 16MB RAM, is far more tolerable
(and faster!) than trying to bring the beast up locally.

Primarily due to swap time.

Way back then, Netscape under Linux was thrashing the hard drive enough to
give Windows three heart attacks before crashing [everything].

A nudge up to 48MB RAM helped in letting Sawmill, GNOME, a couple dozen xterms,
and a GUI irc client running with light swapping.  Bringing up Netscape would
still cause enough swapping to give Windows a stroke, but not yet slow enough
to make X over 28.8 necessary.  Well... than again, I have DSL now.

-Fred