Am Sonntag, 5. M?rz 2006 02:12 schrieb Scott Karns: > --- 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
I didn't want to start a flamewar. I only described my own (and others) experiences with Mandrake/Mandriva. Actually, I used to like Mandrake very much as a user and especially newbie friendly distro. Personally, I have bought at least four versions of Mandrake. For all those who simply want to use their computer running Linux, Mandriva plus a Mandriva Club subscription is a good choice. But compiling from sources not provided by cooker is a mess. Consequently, for those who want or need to do testing with bleeding edge versions, it cannot be recommended IMHO. Cheers, Christoph
