I'm a lazy end user.

AlienBob has binaries of his slackbuilds for download and the Microlinux Desktop (Nicholas Kovacks) provides a range of binary builds for a nice xfce4 desktop. 14.2: microlinux builds are on hold a bit until 14.2 gets more stable.

There is also the slackonly binaries that are built from the slackbuild scripts at slackbuilds.org. Not sure how maintained slackonly is but many of the 14.1 builds work fine.

You don't have to compile a lot unless you want special options or if you have trust issues about binaries.

Yes, I used a lot of alien's packages. IIRC, there was no Inkscape so I had to do it manually.

To save some electricity for anyone else... Nicholas Kovack's microlinux has inkscape 0.91 binaries compiled for both 14.1 and 14.2.

The 14.2 32 bit version is working fine. You just need the inkscape package from

http://www.microlinux.fr/microlinux/desktop-14.2-32bit/slack...

On 14.1 you will need more libraries to support Inkscape version 0.91. I found these worked...

    atkmm-2.22.7-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    cairomm-1.10.0-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    glibmm-2.36.2-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    gsl-1.16-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    gtkmm-2.24.4-i486-1_microlinux.txz 
    inkscape-0.91-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    libsigc++-2.2.11-i486-1_microlinux.txz
    pangomm-2.34.0-i486-1_microlinux.txz