Over the weekend I put up Slackware 8.1 and ran for a couple of days. Pretty uneventful experience. The only real drawback is that they don't package Sylpheed, but at least they do offer Xfce. A few notes:
1) Slackware is still stuck in the Lilo world (some would say right on). I let it create a Lilo bootdisk, but for some reason that failed to boot. So I just updated my grub menu.lst and continued. 2) I couldn't get the precompiled kernel to recognize my ethernet card even after loading tulip, so I had to move over my kernel config and compile my usual kernel which worked without a hitch. 3) The system works great - good choice of app versions. Galeon had a few hangups, but nothing terrible. I didn't load or try kde. 4) My one drawback, and I'm sure Slackware afficionados have a cure for this one, would be the problem of maintenance. I've gotten too spoiled by gentoo where everything is done for me. 5) On a scale of 1-10, I'd give Slack at least an 8. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD? gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
