On Tuesday 07 June 2005 11:22, Sebastian Roeder wrote: > > I consider buying SuSE 9.3. Has > > anybody experience with that distro? > > > > I want to/have to: > > > > - build ghostscript 8.5x > > > > - build scribus 1.2.2cvs and 1.3cvs > > > > - build lprof > > > > - build inkscape 0.41 > > > > - build GIMP 2.2.6 > > > > 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. > > I personaly use Gentoo and I am quite satisfied but Gentoo lacks > ghostscript-8.xx (non afpl) so I can not use my printer with CUPS and > ghostscript-8.x at the same time. With your internet problems I would > not recommend you a source distribution or strongly internet based > distribution at all. > > SuSE 9.3 has ghostscript-8.15 with full CUPS support (I think no other > distro has this so far), I have never experienced problems to build CVS > in my SuSE times and inkscape 0.4x and gimp 2.2.x are already on board. > I think this is a good starting point.
Gentoo has ghostscript-gnu 8.16 :) Give it a go. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050607/05608b67/attachment.pgp
