[slackintosh-users] Re: Any testers?
- From: Denise Bates <dbates@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:44:54 +1100
On 03/12/2011 07:40 AM, Derek B wrote:
New Slackware is on the way, and my Slackintosh box is mostly synched
to -current as of late November. If there are still users and testers
out there, I bet we could hack a fresh release together. The main
problems I've noticed:
I am still interested in running Slackintosh on my G4. I would be glad
to help in bringing Slackintosh up-to-date (or at least a lot closer to
Slackware-current). My programing skills are minimal, however. I offer
some of my thoughts on the project........
-Recent versions of the browsers do not compile on ppc. I use midori,
but maybe omitting seamonkey and firefox takes the project too far from
mainline Slackware
My "lampstand" G4 was my primary internet device while was on dial-up. I
switched to WiFi, but so far I haven't succeeded in getting a USB WiFi
dongle to work on the machine. If I ever solve the connection problem, I
would prefer a full-featured browser.
-A recent OpenOffice is available for PPC, but LibreOffice is not.
Slackware does not include either, of course, so maybe it doesn't
matter.
My preferred word-processor is LyX, which was easy to compile on the G4.
I could live without most of Libre/OpenOffice
features on a desktop (I use Impress presentations on my laptop).
I left Debian 5.0 for Slackintosh 12.1. It was a great move. My
SLiM/stumpwm/xfce4 setup is nearly perfect, and good ppc distros are
hard to find. Are there enough of us to support Slackintosh?
I was unable to install Debian on to my G4, because of problems in
configuring the NVidia driver. Although NVidia hardware works in a
fashion on Slackintosh, it is clearly not running at its full potential.
I guess that is just a drawback of closed-source equipment that I'll
have to live with.
regards,
Denise Bates
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