[orca-list] Self Introduction

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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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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