gnucash 2.1.3 on Slackware/Dropline

Robert Heller heller at deepsoft.com
Mon Jun 11 18:52:17 EDT 2007


At Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:50:20 -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:

> 
> andy thomas <andy at netstat-a.net> writes:
> 
> >> Slackware seems unable to package things that are usable.  I'd suggest a
> >> different distro.  If you like fine-grained controls, I heartily recommend
> >> Gentoo.  Fedora and Ubuntu seem great as well.
> >
> > In defence of Slackware, it should be remembered they no longer
> > support the gnome desktop. I use mainly Slackware myself but I run
> > gnucash remotely on a SuSE Linux system via X-windows.
> 
> That's not a defence..  That's confirmation that slackware isn't
> a distribution worth caring about anymore.  Any distribution worth
> its salt provides both Gnome and KDE and lets the user choose.

And lets the user chose 'other' if he/she wants.  I use CentOS, but
don't use the default Gnome desktop, although parts of it are installed.

> 
> > Andy
> 
> -derek
> 

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