Linux Desktop Summit Re: [SGVLUG] Hello from San Diego

[juanslayton at dialup4less.com]

Alex Roston wrote ..
> Hallelujah! Sing it brother!
> 
> Now don't get me wrong. I love Slackware, and I use it on the desktop -
> with a custom version of IceWM, including a custom theme, because the 
> themes that come with IceWM suck, not to mention the rewritten 
> configuration files... I built XDCRoast with "configure," "make" and 
> "make install," just like I built several other desktop components. I 
> also use a heavily customized version of Idesk for icon management, and
> only turn Nautilus on when I desperately need to, because the latest 
> Nautilus is becoming more and more bloated and Gnome-centric... most of
> my file management is done the old-fashioned way, by booting a console.
> CD-Roms are lovingly mounted by hand, the old fashioned way, and I've 
> set my printer up with LPD, using a command-line application called 
> apsfilter, because CUPS is an unreliable piece of garbage that dies at
> the drop of a hat.
> 
> etc.
> 
> And etc. again.
> 
> At the end of the process, Slackware became an extension of my will.  
> But it took a couple years, and I dread the day I have to upgrade.
> 
> But would I reccommend Slackware for a newbie? Or a corporate office? Or
> someone who doesn't like to tinker? No way in hell - not unless they 
> were willing to pay me to customize it first.
> 
> Alex
> 
     Alex, sometime I've got to find out what you know that I don't.  On my Slackware 10.0 distro, CUPS works fine, but I can't get LPD to print anything at all.  Not even with apsfilter.

John