If you like Slackware, you should have a look at Arch Linux. It is very simple like Slackware but more advanced with a package manager, BSD-like port system, and more. Steve Holmes wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > I don't know quite the best way to answer your question right now. > Tha lack of gnome natively in Slackware is one big draw-back to > Slackware. I like slackware bad enough to try and install gnome > separately. There are several gnome "mini distros" out there. I > started with Drop Line gnome and it installed easily enough but I am > quite disappointed that it has not been keeping up with latest gnome > versions. I'm a bit afraid to upgrade my slackware 12.0 to 12.1 for > it might mess up the drop line gnome packages. I'm tempted to go and > upgrade to 12.1 and remove dropline and consider another gnome > distro. I forget right now the names of others. For my non-gnome > boxes, I'm inclined to stick with Slackware indefinitely but I'm > really tempted to start over with Debian but I am very partial to the > /etc file structure that Slackware uses; I'm not crazy about the > System V structure used by Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora. > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:53:27PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: >> Is it easy to install Gnome in Slackware? That was one of my other >> favorite distros and if I can do it on there it would be great. >> >> >> Steve Holmes wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: RIPEMD160 >>> >>> Wow, it sounds like you fell into a hole and dug in some and now it is >>> falling in on top of you. <smile> If you don't have too much invested >>> in this setup, that is, not too much personal data or work of art or >>> whatever, you may want to wipe and start over. I had to do that a >>> while back with Slackware because I tried re-installing X after having >>> part of Dropline Gnome installed and nothing worked right after that >>> so I just blew it all away and started over with a brand new install >>> of Slackware 12.0 at that time and then installed the gnome stuff and >>> I've been OK since. I like Debian's dependancy tracking and all, but >>> I wonder if it goes too far some times. >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 02:48:58PM -0400, Robert Spangler wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> Wow, this is messy. I attempted to aptitude remove at-spi and it offered >>>> to fix some dependency issues by removing gnome-accessibility, >>>> gnome-orca, and Dasher along with some other accessibility stuff. I >>>> tried to find a way to prevent it from doing this but could not so ended >>>> up letting it remove it all. Then when I tried to compile atk from >>>> source, it complained that some stuff was missing like gettext and >>>> gtk-doc. I couldn't find them as Debian packages so I installed them >>>> from source. (I think part of this is that there isn't a section on the >>>> Orca web site describing how to set up the build environment on Debian!) >>>> so I went back there and followed the instructions for Ubuntu, thinking >>>> they would be close enough. I did apt-get build-dep gnome-orca and >>>> somewhere along the line some package called gnome-mag failed and insists >>>> on failing. So I attempted to reinstall it but it still insists on >>>> failing. Thinking that it may be a bug with the repository (I am using >>>> unstable) I did a aptitude update and dist-upgrade. This brought up even >>>> another mess! Remember how earlier I switched to lilo? Apparently, there >>>> is a new kernel available and it thinks I still have grub, so it tried to >>>> update my boot stuff by running a script called grub-update! LOL it's >>>> all a mess. Ease of use? >>>> >>>> I love playing with other distros and have found Debian to be the easiest >>>> as far as getting the desktop environment to work but still declare LFS >>>> to be my favorite. >>>> >>>> Thanks all, >>>> Robby >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Speakup mailing list >>>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> - -- HolmesGrown Solutions >>> The best solutions for the best price! >>> http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iD8DBQFImLl3WSjv55S0LfERA05aAJ9c8LROyTLtr+ltmYAKKWuEWzxOrQCfYh6L >>> heqWiRs9wrnkDFJokEBRzBY= >>> =rFQE >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Speakup mailing list >>> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >>> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > HolmesGrown Solutions > The best solutions for the best price! > http://holmesgrown.ld.net/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIn0o5WSjv55S0LfERAzNdAJ45qdNPi0yu1clnDgID4FQNH3CfWwCgk+/G > 5BRmbO8LJ5PLhpyVEY0vGo0= > =h7Fg > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
