What version to install
Clark Smith
question is, What version should I install? Is it better to install 13.1
(or even 13.0) rather than 13.37, on the grounds that 13.37 is obviously
not as thoroughly tested as 13.0 and 13.1? Another issue is that Gnome
does not seem to available for 13.37 in any shape or form.
Aaron W. Hsu
wrote:
Personally, I'm on 13.37 and I like it better than 13.1.
Aaron W. Hsu
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Use 13.37. Unlike other Linux distributions Slackware is very heavily
tested before a release is made. Things tend to stabilize in its beta
well in advance of a formal release.
As for GNOME that's your call, not mine.
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Than for a man to hear the song of fools.
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Glyn Millington
Slackware dumped Gnome at least 6 years ago. It comes with KDE, XFCE,
Fvwm, Fluxbox, Windowmaker, twm (just off the top of my head).
If you really must have the whole Gnome desktop experience you might do
better elsewhere. If your needs relate to a couple of Gnomey prgrams,
poke around on Slackbuilds and see if they are available there.
or here for Gnome slackbuilds - as in the 13.37 release notes!
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| Slackware 13.37 contains updated versions of both KDE and Xfce, but if
| you prefer GNOME then you'll be pleased with the work that the GNOME
| SlackBuild (GSB) team is doing producing a full-featured GNOME desktop
| for Slackware:
|
| http://gnomeslackbuild.org
`----
atb
Glyn
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JFGI http://jfgi.us/
jo...@wexfordpress.com
Someone on the list told me about a Slack derivative called Salix.
Based on 13.37 it has a different distribution philosophy. First you
pick your chosen GUI (I chose XFCE) and that is the version you
download. It also makes heavy use of slapt-get, which is where you can
get your Gnomish stuff. I got Inkscape 48.1 without tears. Since I
didn't choose KDE I didn't automatically get Qt4 (needed by Scribus)
but again slapt-get brought it down and Scribus svn compiled as
usual.
My work partition is still vanilla 13.37 but I am making my Salix
partition more comfy each day. Soon it will be number 1.
Salix comes with LIbre, the follow-on to Open Office that is
independent from a commercial sponsor. Sadly neither product comes
with the LaTeX output plug-in which is another battle I need to
fight.
Most KDE apps are easily replaced with others. Instead of Kmail I am
building Claws-mail which came with the Salix XFCE distro. Since Salix
is really Slackware at heart my other necessaries (like xrandr to make
the GUI images bigger) just copied over. My next venture will be to
download Krita, another KDE-dependent product and one of the few KDE
apps that fall on my must-have list.
I still need a separate Slack 12.2 partition just for Quanta Plus, the
best web page building software I have yet found.
Try Salix. I think you will like it, especially its gnome
friendliness.
John Culleton
Aaron W. Hsu
> I think you will like it, especially its gnome
> friendliness.
What's wrong with the third-party packages for Gnome for Slackware? I've
heard they are quite good, though I have never tried them.
Dan C
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 12:25:31 -0400, jo...@wexfordpress.com
> <jo...@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
>> I think you will like it, especially its gnome friendliness.
>
> What's wrong with the third-party packages for Gnome for Slackware? I've
> heard they are quite good, though I have never tried them.
>
> Aaron W. Hsu
You're asking a guy who struggles to get one application (Inkscape)
running on *EVERY* new release of Slackware. Every single time, he seems
to start from scratch and forgets everything he's learned (?) and been
told. He's been told within the last few days right here in this
newsgroup, how to get it working on 13.37, but doesn't acknowledge the
advice or the posters. The answer I'm referring to, of course, is
slackbuilds.org... Anyway, do you think a guy like this is going to be
able to install something like GSB...? Really?
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Aaron W. Hsu
wrote:
> Anyway, do you think a guy like this is going to be
> able to install something like GSB...? Really?
*shrug* Who knows? Some people have their Achilles' Heel. :-) At any rate,
at least there ought to be enough responses suggesting third party
packages out there that all of the people who find these articles and
don't know much yet won't be swayed. Not that there is much chance of them
being swayed if they are to become good Slackers, but, eh.
jo...@wexfordpress.com
> On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:42:59 -0400, Aaron W. Hsu wrote:
> > <j...@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
> >> I think you will like it, especially its gnome friendliness.
>
> > What's wrong with the third-party packages for Gnome for Slackware? I've
> > heard they are quite good, though I have never tried them.
>
> > Aaron W. Hsu
>
> You're asking a guy who struggles to get one application (Inkscape)
> running on *EVERY* new release of Slackware. Every single time, he seems
> to start from scratch and forgets everything he's learned (?) and been
> told. He's been told within the last few days right here in this
> newsgroup, how to get it working on 13.37, but doesn't acknowledge the
> advice or the posters. The answer I'm referring to, of course, is
> slackbuilds.org... Anyway, do you think a guy like this is going to be
> able to install something like GSB...? Really?
>
> --
> "Ubuntu" -- an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".
> "Bother!" said Pooh, as he tried to learn COBOL.
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> Thanks, Obama:http://brandybuck.site40.net/pics/politica/thanks.j
Yes, I tried the Slackbuild route. But current Slackbuilds for
Inkscape are a bit messed up. And adding the libraries one by one is
tedious. Salix, the XFCE version at least, will load Inkscape 48.1
just fine using slapt-get.
Over the years I have tried various Gnome add-ons to Slackware. Again
results have been more often failure than success. But the Salix
people have put together a distro and also a slapt-get facility that
works for most useful programs. I was able to download
QT4 via slapt-get which made Scribus compiles to work again.
I miss konsole and of course Quanta Plus. but other than that XFCE
Salix does well. My next attempt will be with the KDE version of
Salix, to see if it will load Inkscape via slapt-get. That way I can
get Konsole and Krita too.
I ask about Inkscape because it is the most difficult to install on
Slackware. I don't ask about Scribus, TeX, etc. because they don't
give me much grief on the install side. TeXlive is pretty much OS
agnostic and Scribus compiles overnight every night with no problem
using the latest Slackware libraries.
Now that I have found Salix I probably won't post for a while except
to note any quirks that pop up.
Thanks to all who help.
John C.
Aaron W. Hsu
> But current Slackbuilds for
> Inkscape are a bit messed up.
How? I've used them before and they are a breeze. I just looked at the
dependencies again and they are also very simple. There are a few of them
for Inkscape, but quite fast to install. Moreover, none of them seem to
have explicit dependencies outside of Slackware, making it a single level
resolution. Easy. A couple of terminal windows building packages
simultaneously and you're home free.