On Sunday 01 June 2003 15:48, Aryan Ameri wrote: > Zoup, > > You mentioned a while ago that you have downloaded Slackware 9. > > How is it? Have you installed it? What are your impressions? Kepp us > updated on it. > > > > Cheers
in one word , its Great ! yes i have installed it on my laptop/desktop , as you may now one of four slackware 9 cd's availabe for download . after downloading ISO image ( it takes two weeks ! ) i have write it on CD and boot it , i was asked for select a pre-compiled kernel (2.4.20) for specific hardware and filesystem needs , I would like to mention that Slackware 9.0 supports all 4 journaling file systems: ReiserFS, ext3, XFS and JFS . i have choose ReiserFS , I selected my keyboard mapping and logged in as Root without introducing any password , After this I simply typed "setup" and I've entered in the installation program.the setup process isn't change much since version 8 , you know the installation looks like Free-BSD , before slackware 9 i have redhat 9 installed on my system ( 12 GB Ext3 partition , 8 GB /home , 512 Mb Swap ) so i only have to format this partitions and start package selecting , Before formatting, it gave me 3 choices: ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS. Only these three filesystems are supported by the default bare.i pre-compiled kernel. I formated my Linux partition as ReiserFS . I will not get into depth with the package installation , slackware is source based , including KDE 3.1 , Gnome 2.2 , kernel 2.4.20 , Xfree 4.3.0 , gcc 3.2.2 , glib 2.3.1 and ... one official cd's take 2 GB on my hard disk , After installing what I needed, the installer asked me if I have a modem, and I have selected my modem ttyS , note this version supports ttyS4< , so people with PCI modem's will not getting trouble ,After that it asked me about how to install Lilo . You can configure Lilo manually at install or let the software install it for you. I choose Manual Install just for checking process . next step was network configuration , its cool and easy ! it asks for hostname , IP configuration ( static , dhcp ) and autodetect the NIC (Compex rl 2000)and load its kernel module . after that i have set console fonts , mouse type , zone configuration , and finally it asked me for root password and installation ends . after reboot , LiLo loads kernel and after login , i have entered startx and my graphic card ( gf4 ) was installed ! so no problem with Xfree but my mouse whell , I've added the following line in the Mouse Input Device area in /etc/X11/XF86Config : Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" Then i login with root Start KDE , every thing worked fine , even my sound ( i have sb live and always it take kernel recompile ! ) except for 3D hardware acceleration . Slackware supports all hardware that the Linux kernel does, and usually the kernel is not bloated with unnecessary stuff. Supporting my sb live was nice enough , Slackware 9.0 comes with USB utilities and PCMCIA utilities. also my usb scanner are not working and probably won't for a while. But I don't use the scanner much. Slackware 9.0 is overall a very up to date release , I recommend it to the intermediate and advanced Linux users who want to learn Linux and have a good development environment with the latest development tools :) -- Wish You Were Here ... _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
