Re: Enlightenment news (fwd)

[Bruce Smith <bruce@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> What's the most accepted Window Manager at this point? 

I have no idea.  It's personal preference as far as I'm concerned.

> I'm pretty happy
> with AfterStep so far, but I'm also pretty new to this whole thing.  I'm not
> really interested in sticking with AfterStep just because I don't know
> anything else.  Is there a "better" (I know that's subjective - just asking!
> ;) Window Manager?  KDE, perhaps?  I don't really do anything that wild on
> my computer (I just code a MUD...) so I haven't run into any limitations so
> far that make me feel like AfterStep isn't good enough.  I don't know,
> though...  I can't imagine AfterStep being able to look like that bottom
> picture on the Enlightenment Screenshot page...

KDE is definately worth taking a look at.  It's now considered stable.
Other than that, it's personal preference.

Personally I'd stay away from WM's that are still beta/alpha unless
you want to help the authors debug it.

> By the way - I used the SlackWare distribution to get off the ground and now
> that I'm getting more in to this, it's causing some little troubles.  I
> mean, sure the kernel is the same and it's not like the utilities care about
> the distribution, but I always seem to end up having to download "toolkits"
> or a new glibc or something.  I see these RPM's and as far as I can tell,
> they make it really easy to add/update programs.  Is that right? 

That's right, it's VERY EASY compared to slackware.

> Is it worth switching over to a Red Hat distribution to do this? 

Again, that's up to you.  I switched from Slackware to Redhat a few
years ago for that very reason.  It saves me a lot of time, and I'll
never go back to a non-RPM based system.

I've heard you can add the RPM software to Slackware.  I believe that 
will only help you install and update new software (i.e. enlightment),
but will not help you update your existing packages (i.e. glibc).
I've also heard it can be a pain to get working.  Not worth it IMHO.

> All my Linux
> stuff is on one partition so I suppose it'd be easiest to nuke it so I don't
> end up with two copies of everything (or will Red Hat find existing versions
> of stuff and leave them alone?)  I'd appreciate any opinions on this...

You will have to reformat and reinstall from scratch to switch to
Redhat.
Do not try installing over top of an existing slackware installation.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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