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Re: [Sheflug] Re: Linux on X-Box
And Lo! The Great Prophet " Richard Ibbotson" uttered these words of wisdom...
>
> Yes. If you remember rightly I sent some more info about this into the
> list about a month or two ago.
>
Probably :) But to get SuSE 8 running is quite a fair achievement ... :)
> I can't argue with that. But, like most people who use Linux as well as
> the BSDs I find that X-config on the BSDs is still the same as it used to
> be on the Debian distro many years ago.
If we're talking about the text-only config screen, that still exists in the
latest version of XFree. The X-based X config changed in XFree 4, so if the
BSD's are hanging back on XFree 3, it won't have changed... :)
> BTW, whilst I'm barking up the wrong tree. What's KDE3 like on
> Slackware these days ? And ISDN and sound config ? I was wondering
> about giving it a go.
Wrong person to ask about KDE & ISDN :) I know Slack ships with both though,
but couldn't say what they're like. As for sound, I *think* (but will check
when I get home) that its still a manual process to configure. I imagine
though that KDE3 on slack will be like KDE3 on SuSE/Redhat/Debian/etc ...
just without any distribution-specific junk on top :)
Btw, there is a beta of Slackware 9.0 out (follow the slackware-current
stuff) that uses gcc 3.2. It is probably going to be a few months before 9
is released properly, so there will be lots of changes & fixes in the mean
time. The suggestion is Patrick's gone public early to find all the problems
gcc 3.2 will give. Of which there will probably be many. But if anyone's
interested in bleeding edge stuff, grab slackware-current from a mirror.
Chris...
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