> I consider buying SuSE 9.3. Has > anybody experience with that distro? > > I want to/have to: > > - build ghostscript 8.5x > > - build scribus 1.2.2cvs and 1.3cvs > > - build lprof > > - build inkscape 0.41 > > - build GIMP 2.2.6 > > Can all this be achieved with SuSE 9.3 without downloading too much > stuff? It's a serious problem, because after a major hardware upgrade, I > had to remove my ISDN-card.
I personaly use Gentoo and I am quite satisfied but Gentoo lacks ghostscript-8.xx (non afpl) so I can not use my printer with CUPS and ghostscript-8.x at the same time. With your internet problems I would not recommend you a source distribution or strongly internet based distribution at all. SuSE 9.3 has ghostscript-8.15 with full CUPS support (I think no other distro has this so far), I have never experienced problems to build CVS in my SuSE times and inkscape 0.4x and gimp 2.2.x are already on board. I think this is a good starting point. If you are interessted I can offer you a new and complete SuSE 9.3 Prof. box - I wanted to install it on my new Notebook (Intel Centrino 2nd generation, Dell Inspiron 6000) as a Scribus platform but the hardware is to new so I had to go back to gentoo (and still a lot work is needed). Please send me a personal email if you are interessted.
