[Sheflug] Re: Slack 10

[Richard Ibbotson <richard [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris

> 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!


Sounds good :)  Nice to see a Slackware supporter still hacking away out 
there.  Be nice if you could bring it along to the next meeting but as 
you always explain to me... you are extremely busy and time is something 
that you don't have.

The kernel issue.  For some reason SuSE have got it together this last 
week with their 2.6.5-7.95 kernel.  Don't ask me how they did it.  They 
aren't known for being good with kernels. This is a second update in 
two weeks.  Meanwhile Debian and Slack people wait for the new kernel to 
arrive.  Although, I have had e-mail from Debian users who are running 
fine on the 2.6 kernel I'm finding that it's mostly experienced 
programmers with a lot of Linux knowledge who can make it work.

Wonder how the other distros are doing.  Brett showed us yesterday that 
he's got a 2.6 kernel going on Gentoo.  Other things to do with Gentoo 
look good.  Bit like Slack in that you have a similar philosophy for 
installation.


Thanks



Richard

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