JOHN CULLETON wrote:
While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12
system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I
reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among
other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up
on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of
Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack
(12) then I may give it a try again.
There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that
compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are
not widely available.
Please stop this non sense.
Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive
nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4
which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work
with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian.
Back in the days I was using Slackware, I used to compile everything. If
you are not able to compile Qt and LyX, pay someone to do it for you and
stop complaining about people developing those programs for *FREE*.
I am writing this via my online mailbox attached to my webpage. Trust
me it is a helluva way to do my daily work.
John Culleton TeX since 1995.
Just stay with TeX and stop annoying us.
Abdel.
