Re: [orca-list] orca questions

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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Concerning the questions about LFS vs Slackware vs other package based
distros, I think LFS would be a blast to really get down and crawl
under the hood and learn the ins and outs of your system.  It would be
an extremely rich acedemic experience.  However, I'm geeky enough I
would probably enjoy such an experience when I find the time to do
this.  

Otherwise, I'm inclined to follow Michael's view concerning
Slackware.  I've been using Slackware from clear back in 1994.  I cut
my teeth on this distro and am still using it.  I threatened to switch
to Debian a few times but never took the plunge.  Slackware is my
comfort zone and I find it easy to work with.  I wouldn't mind if
Slack would implement a better tracking of dependencies but still.

My other reservation about Slackware lately is the non inclusion of
gnome.  You have to use other 3rd party mini distros of gnome and this
causes a considerable lag in versioning of gnome apps.  Dropline gnome
for example is still setting at 2.20 where 2.22.2 is going out to the
street later this week.  Slackware just went through a new version
last month or so so now I'm kinda stuck.  If I upgrade slackware, I
may break dropline and dropline hasn't come out with any really new
stuff yet. So that leves me in a hard place.  My questions now may be
to see what other mini gnome distros are other slackware users using
out there? I've heard of slacky and I'm using dropline currently so
what others are out there and what version of gnome are they up to?  I
really don't want to have to do another complete re-install like I had
to do when I put dropline in.

Thanks for any help.
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