On Tuesday 07 June 2005 03:15, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > Hi all, >
> after having experienced Mandrake (9.2., 10, 10.1) as a wash-out > when it came to compiling from source since more than a year, I am > looking out for a distro that has everything aboard without giving > me too many headaches with respect to dependencies. I consider > buying SuSE 9.3. Has anybody experience with that distro? > > I want to/have to: > > - build ghostscript 8.5x Very easy and 9.3 has the new ESP GS 8.15 with CUPS integrated. > > - build scribus 1.2.2cvs and 1.3cvs easily > > - build lprof easily > > - build inkscape 0.41 packaged and CVS Inkscape is easily built too > > - build GIMP 2.2.6 2.2.7 is available via apt4rpm or ftp download > > 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. To access the internet, I > have to boot W2k as the only device left is the one provided by the > phone company. It's Windoze and OS/X only, hardly any chance of > ever getting drivers for Linux, so you can imagine the pain of > resolving Linux dependencies ... > Suse ships with dozens of ISDN and DSL modem drivers which are very easy to configure via Yast. Maybe it includes yours. > Any reports would be welcome. > > Thanks in advance, > > Christoph > Apt4rpm works very well on Suse 9.x and there are a handful of 3rd party packagers who add some of the missing things from Suse. e.g. *loads* of multi-media stuff, addtional kde and gnome apps etc. I've not felt I lack for available packages. The thing I find with Suse is the Qt packaging is first rate, clearly named and for Scribus this is very important. Just my 0.02, Peter
