Wayne D's Blog - Latest Comments on What was Asus thinking when they picked Xandros for the EEEPC? https://wdawe.com/index.php?blog=1&disp=comments en-CA http://backend.userland.com/rss 60 Keith [Visitor] in response to: What was Asus thinking when they picked Xandros for the EEEPC? Sun, 08 Feb 2009 07:50:51 +0000 Keith [Visitor] c120@https://wdawe.com/ <p>Well, Linux is just a kernel. I don&#8217;t know anything about Xandros, but from your description, it sounds like it only includes the X libraries without GTK+ or Qt. Not that either are that hard to install. For GTK+, grab the source of the latest versions of glib, atk, pango, and gtk (in that order) and in each one do a simple:<br /> ./configure<br /> make<br /> sudo make install<br /> sudo ldconfig</p> <p>I&#8217;m using Ubuntu currently, but I thought Mandriva was much better. Ubuntu espouses the Windows philosophy that computer users are idiots and everything should be hidden from them. Plus, the .deb-package database is rather kooky (making me get things I decided to cancel anyway; telling me that I should apt-get autoremove to get of unneeded packages and then the next time I decide to install or uninstall something, it tells me I need the packages I autoremoved last time; etc).</p> Well, Linux is just a kernel. I don’t know anything about Xandros, but from your description, it sounds like it only includes the X libraries without GTK+ or Qt. Not that either are that hard to install. For GTK+, grab the source of the latest versions of glib, atk, pango, and gtk (in that order) and in each one do a simple:
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig

I’m using Ubuntu currently, but I thought Mandriva was much better. Ubuntu espouses the Windows philosophy that computer users are idiots and everything should be hidden from them. Plus, the .deb-package database is rather kooky (making me get things I decided to cancel anyway; telling me that I should apt-get autoremove to get of unneeded packages and then the next time I decide to install or uninstall something, it tells me I need the packages I autoremoved last time; etc).

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