On Sun, 2009-09-06 at 17:45 -0400, John Culleton wrote:
Since my Slackware system appears inhospitable for Inkscape despite my best efforts I want to put up another distro on its own partition just for Inkscape. My immediate target is Inkscape 46 since anything newer will probably not be easily installed. All other factors considered equal I prefer an rpm based distro. What does the list recommend?
I know you said you prefer rpm based distros, but I still have to recommend Ubuntu. A handful of our developers work for Canonical, so it is almost always in the best shape on Ubuntu compared to other distros.
Also, for Ubuntu, there is an inkscape-testing PPA (repository) that you will be able to get pretty bleeding edge builds easily for. Don't be scared by "testing" or "bleeding edge", we tend to keep SVN in pretty good shape as a handful of our devs use it for their day job.
Cheers, Josh