Am Samstag, 4. M?rz 2006 23:24 schrieb John R. Culleton: > I have run Slackware since the floppy disk days but now it seems > to be running out of steam in the DTP area. In particular > several attempts to install Inkscape have failed. I know that > several users of Scribus also use Inkscape. So my question is: > whoat distro comes with Inkscape or is a capable host for > Inkscape? How about Debian? > > The distro would need to be Scribus friendly too of course.
Hi John, AFAIK, any of the major distros (Fedora, SuSE, Debian, Mandriva ...) is shipped with Inkscape, Scribus, and GIMP. If you want to compile the most recent versions yourself, I wouldn't recommend Mandriva which doesn't take care of many standards and is therefore almost proprietary. Personally, I'm using SuSE which is quite user friendly, but has some quirks you have to live by. Others will recommend Fedora, Gentoo, or Debian for good reasons. As for Inkscape itself, there are static binaries for rpm-based distributions (SuSE, Fedora, Aurox, Mandriva) available. If you are using a Debian-based distro (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Mepis ...), you can follow the instructions on this site to get Inkscape up and running on your machine: http://inkscape.org/download.php General recommendation: everything but Mandrake/Mandriva, Linspire, and Sun Java Desktop. Cheers, Christoph
