To save you a few bucks http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfect_desktop_slackware12 might fix all your needs.
Personally I would recommend you try Ubuntu and select the option to only install GNU/GPL software at the beginning of the install. That way your not using any of the proprietary stuff you don't like. However for a distro like Slackware and if you are really interested in hiring somoene I think the ideal person for the job would by Randall Whitman who is on this mailing list. If he is interested. -Chris On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Michael Sokolov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello fellow Linux users, > > If any of you would like to make a little extra money in this nasty > economy, I have some Linux desktop PC setup work that I would like to > hire someone from this group to do for me. > > I want to hire someone to come to my facility in San Diego County and to > perform the following work on a Slackware Linux desktop machine: > > 1. Set up and configure the X11 display; > 2. Assist in the selection and setup of a window manager matching my > Spartan philosophy; > 3. Set up and configure some decent version of Mozilla Firefox or some > other browser that meets the F/OSS definition and which would provide > web browsing capabilities no worse than those enjoyed by users of > consumer operating systems like Weendoze or Ubuntu. Compilation from > source may be required. > > Additional work we may want depending on how well you do the above and > depending on the available budget: > > * Install and set up OpenOffice or some other F/OSS software that can > grok .doc, .rtf and .odt files - again compilation from source may be > required. Here I'm mostly interested in a piece of software that can > read in a .doc/.rtf/.odt file, run it through its text formatting > engine, and spit out PostScript or PDF output. From what I understand > one can do this with OO by opening a document and selecting "Print" or > "Save As" the right format. I am additionally interested in finding > some way to do this *without* bringing up the GUI, i.e., to invoke > OO's document printing / format conversion engine from the command > line without having an X11 display. > > * Set up and configure audio - say, to the point where a user can play > MP3s from the command line. > > * Set up and configure video - say, to the point where a user can watch > a YouTube video or a DVD, with working audio. > > But here is one gotcha - all this MUST be done under Slackware. > Replacing Slackware with a different distro is NOT permissible. Why? > Because the person paying (me) says so. > > Any takers? > > MS > > P.S. I hope this post doesn't violate the rules of the mailing list. > If such requests are inappropriate here, I would appreciate a pointer > to a more appropriate forum. > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >
