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[Sheflug] Slack 10
For those that haven't heard, Slackware 10 was released a week ago, and
given I was running a four year old Slack, I thought it was time I upgraded
:-) It's probably one of the smoother upgrades I've ever done[1] - even
though it was a complete reinstall - keeping /home and /usr/local only.
The upgrade's allowed me to junk most of /usr/local, keeping more esoteric
or legacy apps that I use on a day-to-day basis like nmh and exmh.
For a change, I've not had to do a kernel rebuild as a first job as all the
hardware's been picked up, including the generic no-name TV card :-) And
even though XFree86 has been dropped in favour of the X.Org server, using
my configuration from XFree86 4.1 has saved the hassle of having to do a
full reconfiguration of X (or any reconfiguration for that matter).
Only running a 2.4 kernel for the time being - 2.6 still has the odd issue,
so I'll wait for that to stabalise more before upgrading.
I've a minor problem with the fonts in Mozilla - some places are defaulting
to a horrid Times Roman rather than a Helvetica variation. I'm not sure if
this is due to incomplete font support in this server, or I had missing
fonts in the old server and others have taken precedence or what. It's one
I need to dig in to.
But beyond that, I'm quite happy with how it's gone :-) I've not got two
weeks of twiddling for a change, more like two days instead as I copy back
old config and rebuild those things I need to. Huzzah!
Chris...
[1] I never went for smooth upgrades anyway - every install I've done I've
done something different to try new things or ignore stuff in favour of
building from source; this is probably the first like-for-like upgrade I've
done.
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