OT -Other than Yellow Dog ?

[Ben Ricker]

On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 12:34 PM, Harvey Ussery wrote:

> Yeah, that's my impression too. In fact, this whole process of trying 
> out new Linux flavors started when I tried to compile Lyx from source 
> under YDL. Never was able to get the install fully up & running. When 
> I started looking around, I found that other distro's were offering 
> Lyx as ready-to-install pkgs. I had been surprised that ydl didn't as 
> well--in the world of Linux text processing, it's not that exotic a 
> program.

You need not go so far as Lynx. The latest install of Evolution is 1.2 
(they are up to 1.4.5)! And Mozilla is like 1.2 and they are up to 1.5 
release. That is ridiculous, frankly.

> Once I get into Gentoo, maybe I'll come looking for some pointers, 
> Ben!   Thanks    --Harvey

No problem. Send me a missive.

Ben Ricker