While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I
managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh
partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on
Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If
someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable
version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again.
There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that compels
them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are not widely
available. Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive nuisances. True, I can
install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4 which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a
host of other things don't work with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian.
I am writing this via my online mailbox attached to my webpage. Trust me it is
a helluva way to do my daily work.
John Culleton
TeX since 1995.
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