On Friday 04 September 2009 08:47:11 Robert Marma wrote: > Hello, > I constantly follow the posted emails and responses, which are both > enlightening and informative, especially for a "newbie" like myself. It's > been awhile since I bothered you and the contributors to this mailing list > with what must appear to be simplistic queries, and I appreciate the time, > attention, AND PATIENCE the Scribus Team and your knowledgeable > contributors are willing to invest in responding to them. :) This time, my > question has to do with using Linux. I installed Scribus on two Windows > XP-based laptops--a 6-year-old Compaq Presario and a recently purchased > Asus EeePC netbook. I was wondering if there would be any advantage(s) to > partitioning the hard drive of each system, and then running Linux/Windows > and installing a Linux version of Scribus, which the majority of the > contributors to this e-mailing appear to be using. For example, are there > more dependencies, script libraries, and other GPL software available for > the Linux version and for Linux, in general? If the answer to both of these > questions is "yes", then I am wondering if I Will I need to begin studying > Linux commands and command structure, as I did many, many years ago with > MS-DOS? [I obviously know very little about Linux, so please bear with > me.] Also, if I decide to take this route, should I consider only the > community-driven Linux versions--such as Debian and Gentoo-- or would I be > better off trying to get commercially-backed versions like Fedora, > openSUSE, Ubuntu, or Mandriva? Also, what about Slackware? What > dependencies should I install for each? I would appreciate any information > and guidance anyone can provide? Thank all of you, and keep up the great > work!! :) Bob
I am probably not a good witness because I discovered Slackware Linux almost two decades ago and it is my main OS ever since. Slackware comes with a fixed set of applications and everything else, including Scribus, must be downloaded as a tar ball and configured, compiled and installed. The latest version of Slackware Linux (13) has the Qt 4.5 libraries so Scribus will compile without difficulty. Linux has a full-fledged graphic interface which I use most of the time. But I open up command line driven terminal sessions on top of the gui for things like compilation, searching for files, use of text utilities etc. Oh yes, in addition I have been fiddling with computers since 1968. Back then a fellow told me I wasn't smart enough to understand what went on inside his IBM 1401 computer.... -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
