[desktop-discuss] Clock Applet and Evolution in vermillion_85

[Ken Mays]

>I have the same qualms about the memory usage of EDS, Evolution, and 
>various GNOME applets as well. While Evolution is quite productive 
>compared to Thunderbird + Lightning, it's a matter of lost productivity 
>from intensive swapping. Plus I use xVM and ZFS, so it's really a big 
>issue when GUI stuff takes away large chunks of my total memory. 2GB 
>should be a decent amount for one xVM guest running with 256MB ram and 
>ZFS (Which needs about 1GB over the course of a week with a large cache 
>of my 500GB archive) I really don't understand how a UNIX-based system 
>could outconsume Microsoft's latest OS with Office 2007 and VMware. It 
>is how it is, it's just annoying to say the least since I do like Evolution.
>James

James,
I've been reviewing Evolution to mostly have it replace Outlook 2007 for my own Exchange environment. For the most part, it does a decent job in many areas and just needs various tweaks in others.

Ken
 
 
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