[klug] May KLUG meeting and other small stories

[Peter Dinnan]

Hi all,

It's less than two weeks to our next meeting and I was wondering if we're 
going to have some form of agenda?

Personally, while the group is still small, I'm quite happy with the socal 
chit-chat we've been having as per past meetings.

Having said that...    I jumped off the deep end a couple of weeks ago and am 
now 100% penguin   :-)

The deciding factor was the lastest development release of Scribus (v1.3.3.1) 
- it really is gaining momentum with regard to it's type setting tools, .pdf 
export and so on...  yes, Lunux and DTP, finally, are a reality.

Getting back to "having said that" - I'm more than willing to do a tutorial on 
Scribus; if there's any interest that is - I'm thinking the June meeting.  
This gives me time to build my working knowledge with the app.  I'll also be 
quite keen to run a tutorial on basic typesetting (there's sooo much 
incompetent typesetting out there in the DTP world at present).

Smart Package Manager:  OK, I was wrong (never believe what one reads on web 
forums).  Smart works very well with SuSE and I guess with most (all?) other 
distros.  It was in fact the only way I could install the lastest GIMP 
(2.2.11)   ...YaST didn't want to know - kept complaining about libcairo so2 
(and how other installed apps relied on libcairo so1).  Not so as it turned 
out...  no other installed packages have broken   :-)   Anyway, as I've found 
out, Smart won't install if there's a conflict.

Cheers,
Peter