On Sat, 2004-03-27 at 09:42, Curtis Sloan wrote: > Jesse, > > You have a (non-RPM based) Slackware box?! You've been holding out on > us! ;-) > > Next we're going to find out you've been secretly compiling Gentoo. ;-) LOL > > Curtis
lol, yes I installed Slackware on my laptop. I've actually found it to be pretty sweet. Despite what everyone says about the install, I found it fairly straightforward. Package installation has been painless as well. I installed swaret which works like apt (although it doesn't have nearly as many sources as apt does for most systems). Since all the development packages come pre-installed it is easy to compile software. I also installed Dropline Gnome which has it's own installer and is very easy to install and update. It's actually very slick and it's up to date unlike Ximian Gnome. The only issue that I have, is that I cannot get good video performance out of it. When I try to watch videos in fullscreen they are all choppy and it makes them unviewable. I'm not sure why this is, the laptop is a P3 500 with 768MB RAM so I would think that it should be able to play video no problem. Jesse _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
