>That's why you should opt for a general usage distro. Fedora, SUSE, >Ubuntu, and probably the best IMHO, is Mint.
>If you want to play with Centos and other boutique distros, be >prepared to do the hard yards. CentOS/RHEL is not a boutique distro any more than Debian is. I have been a Fedora user since the distro began but when they went with GNOME 3, I just couldn't stand it any longer. I wanted stable and unchanging with long term support. Ubuntu TLS distros... are they also boutique? By "boutique" I presume you mean "small and specialized." CentOS (rebranded RHEL) is far from fitting that definition. (yeah, I am a little offended but I'll get over it.) I have had some measure of success but not before running into countless issues with compiling and configuring. Among the ones that stick with me is the lack of SVG support. I have librsvg and librsvg-devel installed as well as compiled libraries I have installed from source to /opt/gimp-2.8. The gimp compile process still does not detect librsvg. Here is the summary after running ./configure: Extra Binaries: gimp-console: yes Optional Features: D-Bus service: yes Language selection: yes Optional Plug-Ins: Ascii Art: no (AA library not found) Compressor: yes Ghostscript: yes Help Browser: no (WebKit not found) LCMS: yes JPEG: yes JPEG 2000: yes MNG: yes PDF (import): Using PostScript plug-in (libpoppler not found) PDF (export): yes PNG: yes Print: yes PSP: yes Python: yes Script-Fu: yes SVG: no (librsvg not found) TIFF: yes TWAIN (MacOS X): no TWAIN (Win32): no URI: yes (using GIO/GVfs) Webpage: no (WebKit not found) Windows ICO: yes WMF: yes XJT: yes X11 Mouse Cursor: yes XPM: yes Plug-In Features: EXIF support: yes Optional Modules: ALSA (MIDI Input): yes Linux Input: yes (GUdev support: no (libgudev not found)) DirectInput (Win32): no Color Correction: yes Soft Proof: yes Tests: Use xvfb-run no (not found) It is also of interesting note that I have also attempted to resolve the poppler library lack without success. I just don't know what is missing from all of this. -- erroneus (via gimpusers.com) _______________________________________________ gimp-user-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user-list
