Anyone have any info on when dropline is going to back up? It's showing a "Bandwidth Exceeded" error message. I just got slack 9.1 running with the 2.6.5 kernel and I've got everything setup just the way I want. Wolf, ET and ArmyOps works great and so does TeamSpeak2; now I'm just trying to get Dropline 2.6 installed. Are there mirrors for dropline? Can I redirect the dropline_installer to a different site to get the programs it needs?

FWIW as of approx 2:00 PM Pacific, the "bandwidth exceeded" message is still being displayed. In the meantime you can get it from Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dropline-gnome

-- J.W.

I believe Dropline pulls all its files from sourceforge. So I would think the installer should still be working.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dropline-gnome/

If you have a good slack install running, then i have to advise you not to install dropline. Eversince I did an install of it, a lot of thing started to go wrong. If you want gnome, just use the original install... dropline messes just to much with your OS.

Yea, I agree... I don't use 3rd party software with slack anymore. 2:1 it will just screw things up is what my expierence has taught me....

I got the installer from SourceForge since I couldn't get to dropline.net but the installation errors out. I check the logs and it tries to get a package listing from dropline.net. Unless someone has a way around that, I'll have to wait until it's back up. I really like Dropline but if it hoses up my system too much, I can just reinstall. I have all the configs I need in /opt and I don't format that partition. Takes me 20min to go from zero to a working slack 9.1 with 2.6.5 and all my proggies. Hopefully it gets cleared up soon - I'd hate to have to wait till May 1st when (I assume) their bandwidth would be re-instated. Thanks for the replies though. :-)

Dropline is back up! Download the dropline .iso and you can install from cd if the site is down.

Downloading as we speak! :-)

Indeed jong357, dropline looks good... and that's about it. Further, it slows down your system, its setup messes with config files that you don't want it to mess with, it takes a huge amount of diskspace, etc.

I can't say it enough... if you want to create an awfall running slack -> install dropline, otherwise, just use gnome as is.

greetz,
elluva

As per your experience elluva. The only bad thing I can say about Dropline GNOME is that it provides a different experience for many people. To me, it looks great, performs much more quickly that standard Slackware GNOME, has the apps I want, and a great community. For others, it seems Dropline GNOME does the exact opposite. My suggestion is to try Dropline GNOME for yourself and form your own opinion.

I agree with Nis - I would encourage people thinking about Dropline to a give it an honest try-out before making any conclusions about it. The reason I like it is because I'm a big fan of Ximian Evolution, which is included in Dropline but not in Slack, and it's a lot easier to get Evolution up and running via Dropline than it is to manually deal with it. Along those lines, using Dropline saves you the time and the trouble of having to manually locate, download, and install approx 190 packages. Granted, some of the packages may not be of any interest to a particular user, but there's enough good stuff in Dropline (IMO) to make it very worthwhile. -- J.W.

Yes, I think your right about trying it, but NOT on a box you use daily.

I like evolution as well, and it really isn't that hard to install on slackware. If anyone has troubles with it, there are a lot of usefull threads in the slackware forum, just use the search on 'evolution'.

Yea... I tried Dropline last year when I was a noob to slack... I forget everything it did that I didn't like. Adding those bsd-games 'sayings' to your gnome-terminal was a big annoyance that I can remember.... It also changed your PS line too I think.... I just remember it changing all sorts of stuff that I didn't want changed... Core config files.... All that just for evolution and a few extra icons in the menu list.... Just didn't seem worth it to me... Apples and Oranges I suppose. I always thought evolution was hard to get going as well, but it's not... I made an Evolution slak-pak that has all the libs included. It works perfectly on a fresh install.... Once I got used to Slackware, I found that it's easier and way more satisfying to tweak it your self, the way slackware was meant to be used, verses relying on 3rd party apps to hold your hand. Took me awhile to get used to that. Was too used to using Redhat.....

Well, glad to see that the site is back up. This happened a couple months ago as well.... It said their account was suspended. I think they need to do something about their web hosting service.....

Whats the deal with hijacking this thread with a bunch of dropline hating? JimmyJ was enquiring about the status of the server and a bunch of people felt the need to flame dropline. That's not cool.

Who's bashing Dropline? I haven't noticed...... Just giving advice and personal expierence.... After all, isn't that what forums are all about? What else are we going to talk about? I'm not the web master for Dropline nor is anyone else around here.... I don't know what's up with dropline's web site nor does anyone else around here... I don't care what's up with Dropline's website nor does most of the people around here.... The difference between knowledge and wisdom is expierence...... Elluva and I are just sharing our expierence.... Thats all..... Hate is an awfull strong word... I like dropline. Looks nice. I DISAGREE with some of the things it does... Chill out man.... It's all good...