[Sheflug] System re-install :)

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

Well, I finally got round to summat I've been meaning to do for a number 
of months -- re-install my Linux system.

Having decided that SuSE was all-very-nice-thank-you-but-do-you-
really-need-to-take-up-that-much-disk-space? I resorted to the 
old faithful of Slackware.

For this, I grabbed slackware-current from ftp.mirror.ac.uk, and 
installed accordingly.

So now I've got a machine that's got about 1GB more space that it did 
when SuSE was on, and it's running nearly all the same stuff. In real 
terms, it's probobably nearer 500MB free taking acocunt of log files and 
other customizations. Once I plonk Staroffice on, it may knock to to 
above a gig foot print, but that's still smaller than SuSE and the same 
point...I'm trying to think if there's owt else I've missed off. Can't 
think of owt else at moment.

Probably the biggest change in slackware-current (for me) is the 
inclusion of XFree86 4.0.3. And its mixed, my response to it...yes it 
works all fine and dandy - and exmh seems quicker with it, but its giving 
xmms a hard time with very noticable interference if I do something like 
"ls -l". Hunting about on google, a few others have had similar problem, 
and it's probably XFree being tuned for performance it's doing things 
that interrupt the flow of data to xmms. No resolution though yet, so any 
suggestions on possible cures [short of downgrading X to 3.3.<x>] welcome 
:)

Looking at the system it looks like it's 2.4 okay as well, so I might 
chuck that on in the next few days to see what that's like.

If anyone is interested in slackware-current, and you want a copy, it's 
about 1.6GB for the main tree & install/boot kit, contrib/docs/pasture, 
and sources. I have 3 ISO images of 634MB, 372MB and 614MB for each of 
those sets, so I could do copies if CDs are supplied...alternatively, for 
those with Blueyonder, it took about 12 hours to come down (with two 
disconnects/hang ups on the FTP connection; not a BY problem) if you'd 
rather dl it :)

Chris...

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