Ello, I'm sort of new to the lists...is it best to install from livecd?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Tue Sep 2 17:25:44 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 12:34 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:56 -0400, Travis Arnold wrote:
> >> if I take the dvd, then I can choose what I can install?
> > 
> > Yes, you can customise the install, adding packages, removing default
> > ones.  Though be aware that if you remove something that something else
> > depends on, what you removed will be installed anyway.
> > 
> 	Ok, that makes sense.  Is there a way I can not have evolution
> installed?

yum remove evolution

> or is it actually good?

Define "good". It's the mailer I use every day. People who need Exchange
access (not me) complain a lot but there aren't many alternatives.

> It seems sort of slow

Compared to?

> but since I don't usually run it all day- or should I?

No way to answer that. Personally I have it running permanently but then
I never log out (this is on my home machine).

> 	Would it be best to open Evolution or Thunderbird in the morning when I
> turn my computer on, and then leave it running all day and just move it
> to another desktop or is closing it and reopening it better?

I keep it on its own desktop (under KDE).

> I shall
> install tonight when I get back from class.  I have turned html off (did
> I do it properly?)

Yes, thanks.

> sorry about that, does the signature come out? or
> should I make a new one?

I don't see a signature.

poc




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