After having installed the unstable version in early March, with all the headaches that entailed, I was AMAZED by how easy it was to install the new 1.1 base system on my laptop (aero).
The menu of choices has improved greatly, and everything went without a hitch, and without needing to pour over manuals and/or draw from my experience. A novice clearly could get a fully-functional system off of that. I noticed a couple bugs, which I think are well-known: the syslogd seems to be a.out, and since a.out lib's are not installed it dies. This is OK by me, since to conserve resources on my aero I disable that anyway. Also, the netconfig stuff didn't configure slip -- but maybe that isn't a base package. I won't be installing the rest of the system from packages, since I have to be very choosy about what I install on the laptop to save space -- I have had, and will have, a functional system with X, TeX, Motif, maple, and wingz on an 84 meg drive. No manpages, few fonts, and no compiler, but it is great for the road. -- David L. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Mathematics http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/dlj0.html Lehigh University 14 E. Packer Avenue (610) 758-3759 Bethlehem, PA 18015-3174
