On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > So what I want is a distro that uses KDE and has not even a shred of > Gnome > > in it. > > Slackware. Pat dislikes Gnome and does not include it with KDE and Xfce > (plus blackbox. fluxbox, and a few others) in each release. > > > That means it also can't come with any part of OOo, since OOo requires > > parts of Gnome, even on a KDE machine. > > Feh! I have always used Xfce since both Gnome and KDE are to > Microsoftish > in appearance for me. And I've been using OO.o since WordPerfect for Linux > died with the change from libc5 to libc6. The current version of OO.o is > openoffice.org-3.0.0_en_US-i586-3_SBo and it works as well as previous > versions have done. The only KDE installed is kdelibs and kdebase. I've not > needed any Gnome specifically to run OO.o. > > > The problem I am having is characters dropping out in printouts and > > usually (but not always) dropping out on the screen as well. And it > > happens in Abiword, KWord and Scribus as well as OOo. So a distro that > > has just those three would be perfect, although I can install them if > > it doesn't come with them. > > I've run AbiWord, but it's not as useful for translating from/to Word so > I > use just OO.o for that. Scribus runs just fine here and I use it for page > layout on fliers and brochures. > > Rich > > -- > Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility > Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation > <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: > 503-667-8863 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > I've never really understood the distro smackdowns honestly. I think the one thing that irks me most is the long held and I believe false idea that certain distros support certain hardware while others don't. Given that hardware support is a kernel thing, 3rd party modules like madwifi/nvidia/ati not withstanding. I do believe redhat does incorporate some non-mainline kernel bits that do support certain features not found in other distros but they release patches that would allow anyone to add $x support. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
