On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:52:39 -0500, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> Right now it's RH9 (but with a 2.4.23 kernel outside of RH), KDE > 3.1.2, Qt 3.3 > Like many, I'm trying to figure out where I'm going later this year > after RH stops updating RH9. The thing I don't like about SuSE is that > > it only keeps me stuck in many of the same problems I have with RH -- > the RPMs are behind, sometimes *way* behind the development curve, > although arguably SuSE may be a bit more aggressive that RH has become > > for all us non-Enterprise users. Then there's all these > incompatibilities -- I especially hate it when an RPM complains of > incompatibility when I don't have an *older* version of some library. > > But the biggest thing is with cutting edge development like Scribus, > where you absolutely want to compile and trying to update libraries by > > compiling causes no end of trouble because the gods of RPMs have their > > own scheme of where various files go -- it makes me look forward to > the day when Linux will be RPM-free: in some ways, RPMs have that > Microsoft-brainless mentality to them. > > But back to Inkscape -- my experience with Sodipodi [also in the < 1.0 > > version zone (both < 0.5 actually)] suggests that I have better things hi, i am not even trying to get into 'distro wars' here but after having used mandrake (rpm-based) for more than two years i find slackware absolutely ideal especially if you want to do your own things like compile most programs from source. personally i find it gives you the most freedom to make your system exactly what you want it to be. i compile sodipodi and inkscape from cvs and have absolutely no problems. i guess that's partly because i have the latest gtkmm and libsigc++ already installed because of passepartout. certainly inkscape looks very promising and much more 'user friendly'. regards, subash.
