Re: [orca-list] Self Introduction

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I found no difficulty with setting up gnome on slackware 12.0 with
gnome-slacky (www.slacky.eu). I can't comment on droplinegnome as slacky
was more recent (although I think from another message someone sent
dropline has now made a 2.20.2 release, but slacky had a 2.20.1 and a
2.20.2 release).

Gnome slacky was simple to install, I don't know how this compares to
dropline, but for slacky you download the CD image from:
http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/gnomeslk/
Burn the CD image to disc and then run the install.sh script in the base
directory.

There are other packages available in the slacky repository,
sub-directories of http://slacky.uglyplace.org/repository/.

Will, may be I should document this in the orca wiki, its just finding
the time to do so.

From
Michael Whapples
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:21 -0500, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Steve:
> 
> Welcome!  The list has been quiet since many of us were recharging our 
> batteries over the winter break.  I came back to over 1000 e-mail 
> messages and I'm working my way through them.
> 
> For how you can help?  Well...if you want to work on ways to 
> troubleshoot and set up accessibility (and Orca) on Slackware, that 
> would be awesome.  You will have a home at 
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca/DownloadInstall.  :-)
> 
> In any case, welcome again and hope to see you around,
> 
> Will
> 
> Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > Hi, I thought I would introduce myself and let this message double as
> > a quick test to see if I got subscribed all right; It's been silent
> > since I joined earlier today.
> > 
> > I'm brand new to Orca and am so far, just trying the Ubuntu Live 7.10
> > CD to kick the tires so to speak.  I then need to make some room on my
> > hard drive for the extra software to install and decide whether to
> > stick with my current Slackware 12 distro or take a plunge and go with
> > Debian and get gnome packaged in along witheverything else.  I
> > understand DropLine is a good way to go to get gnome for Slackware and
> > I think there was another option as well.  I've always liked Slackware
> > for it's ease of finding and manipulating of config files under the
> > BSD style of configs so I hope installing gnome from packages wouldn't
> > be too hard for that.  If it tends to be problematic for some, then
> > maybe I'd be better off going with something like Debian or Ubuntu.
> > At least those two have identical package management and dependancy
> > tracking; that's one thing Slackware isn't so good at.
> > 
> > Anyway, I'm interested in whatever ideas some folks might express here
> > to kind of nudge me in a good way to go.  I realize the ultimate
> > decision is up to me but I wouldn't mind some input before taking the
> > final jump.
> > 
> > Happy New year.
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