--- Christoph Sch???fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: > 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 >
Not to start a flamewar, but I have used Mandrake/Mandriva for almost 10 years now and have had very few problems with it. The current Mandriva release, 2006.0, comes with inkscape-0.42 and scribus-1.3.0 -- not exactly current, but I had no problem building inkscape-0.43 from the cooker source RPM. I have created a source RPM for scribus-1.3.3cvs that I use on a regular basis for building and testing the current, bleeding edge version of scribus. Personally, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Mand/riva 2006.0. -Scott __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
