On Friday 04 Mar 2005 06:26, Owen Synge owens.singh@ntlworld.com wrote:
There seems to be an awful lot of other stuff in there that Slackware doesn't seem to need to provide the same apps, are all these dependencies really necessary?
What do you think? I find debian a good flexable OS, Would you ever ever try rhythembox on a slackware box?
Undoubtly it is, I've got the full set of CD's for 'Sarge' 13 Disks. Slackware comes on a 4 CD set two of whcih are source, extra packages and retired packages which may be needed by some, and the full Slackware Manual; on the Second disk is KDE and Gnome as they got too big to stay on the first disk with the rest of the distribution, in fact I it only needed the first disk, (to get a running OS with KDE and Gnome), when I started using it.
As for Rythmbox, I'll have a lok at it and see if I can learn to use it, I might be getting to be too and drugged a dog to teach new tricks to, (I'm still trying to learn Emacs, and get mysql to start on and run on Slackware, permissions thing apparently but I'll get there).
Thank you so much for your help Owen, Haven't seen you for years, literally. Not since a very hot meeting in Syleham one summer.