Thought I might just shoot this out to the crowd. I have just installed Drop Line on a test Slack machine and have since installed it on all my machines. Drop Line Rocks. I suggest all Slack users support them. I have since dropped Red Hat 9 for DropLine. Have a good day.

yup. i love it too :D

Just wondering...why would you need dropline?? Isn't dropline just install gnome 2 which already comes with slack 9??

thanks

Yes, Gnome comes with Slackware, but, I like the enhancements that the Dropline folks have added. Plus it enables you to stay current with update reminders like RH8/9. It's kind of like using Ximian Gnome Desktop, this of course is just my opinion, plus, when I'm trying to convert a whole household of Windows users to Linux, the Dropline makes the transition much easier for everyone involved. All I heard was "whats this and how do I do that" with straight Gnome, after the dropline install, My wife and oldest son have since not elected to go back to XP.

Dropline is much more polished than the Gnome version that comes with Slack 9. I started out using the version from9, but was unsatisfied with the look of the fonts and a couple of other issues.

Also, out of the box, dropline comes with support for playing encrypted DVDs with Xine. (which is, BTW, the best multimedia software available for GNU, in my opinion.) The people at Dropline just, plain, have it going on.

Enoy.

and their support forums are great too! some
people helped me a lot today with setting up
my true type fonts in dropline gnome. w00t.
alsa solutions here, then font solutions there..

*praises forums and their inhabitants...

I used Dropline when I was using Slack 8.1....when i came from 8.1 to 9 dropline gnome felt very sluggish. Plus I didn't like how some of the stuff was changed around making other stuff hard to install. Im sure that it was neccessary to do it that way but was just a pain.

Man, you are so right, Dropline rules!

I came from minimalistic fluxbox and blackbox, but I looove dropline!

I also use Dropline on Slack 9.0 , generally I like it, but have some remarks :
1. For any reason they don't have (on sourceforge) directory with one version of each packet, but many versions mixed in one directory, so when you intend to dowload it to make installation from hard disk (or self-made CD) it is very difficult to choose proper packets (I know that installer automatically gets proper version of packets, but not everybody has possibility to install via internet or want just dowload to make installation on another machine).
2. On my machine (CA6300 laptop) it runs rather slowly, version 2.2.2 is still compiled for Slack 8, and I use 9, maybe that is the reason? I think it is high time tu turn to 9.

Do you guys know if there is just one big Tar file I could download with all the packages. I dont have internet in Slackware, so I cant do an internet install, but there is a huge list of packages Id have to download, and knowing me, id forget one.

waldi, if you would go here, you would see a list of all the packages
called 'Dropline Pakcages' in the current dropline installation. download
and install all of them if you want to install dropline manually. different
versions of files are there to satisfy dependencies.

as for the problem with gnome being compiled for slackware nine,
i use slackware nine and do not experience these slowdowns you
are speaking of.. perhaps the performance decrease lies with some-
thing else?

furthermore, i strongly suggest you post your findings or problems
about dropline in the dropline forums; the developers use these
forums actively, and there are many experienced dropline users
who can help you there. also, by posting there, you can help the
dev-team to fix possible problems with their dropline distribution.

Trust me, dropline gnome is much slower than the gnome that comes with slack 9. You probably don't realize the slowdown since you probably went to dropline right after you installed slack 9. But if you reinstall slack 9 and go into gnome you will see.

contrasutra...you should just order the CD. But really, you have gnome 2.2 already, dropline is really no different. Only benifet i can see from dropline is the ease to upgrade stuff in the future, but as you say that you have no internet you wont be able to use that anyway.

Yeah, I installed the GNOME version that comes with slack9. I like it a lot, except it seems to be taking up a lot of Memory. Nautilus is always running in the background (should this happen) and ive got like 230/256MB of RAM used when idle. This seems high.

post your complete free output here. If you dont know how (sorry if you do, just saying just incase), just open a console and type 'free' then post the complete output, buffers, cache, the whole thing

i have used non-dropline gnome on slackware nine
before i installed dropline, and in my opinion dropline
is not slower. the only problems i had were caused
by botched nvidia drivers with improper 2D perfor-
mance; but with the release of 4193 nvidia drivers,
that problem has melted quite a bit. still, i should
try to compile my own kernel sometime, but i am
scared to mess up my system yet again.