Re: tlug: GUI Linux reliability vs other OS

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Austin Kurahone wrote:

> Well lets see,
> I use a combination of an outdated Compaq i486 (Prolinea 2200), 
> Linux(Slackware 3.3.4) for my web design work, and it is extreemely 
> stable.  The GUI (Xfree86) usually causes me no problems, and also there 
> are all that is needed for web design available for  X (eg: GIMP 
> replaces photoshop, XEmacs replaces BBedit or and other HTML enabled 
> editor).

I'm curious - what version of gimp are you using, and if it's a recent
one, how did you get it to build on a slackware (libc5) system?  Ii think
0.99.something was the last one that would build on libc5... 

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