Re: [Sheflug] Re: Slack 10

["Chris J" <cej [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And Lo! The Great Prophet Richard Ibbotson uttered these words of wisdom:
> 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.

Yep - next meet weekend I'm off doing other things. Sorry :-) But my box 
isn't that interesting; I don't run fancy stuff like Gnome or KDE, I still 
use trn to read news, and my mail interface through Mail Handler (nmh) :-)
However I do run X, but it's just a quick way to run several terminals on 
one screen :-)

However, on the flip side ... maybe this legacy way of doing things makes
it interesting in a slightly different way...

Eventually I'll get round to putting muse back on it (muse.seh.de), but 
I've a fair chunk of libraries to upgrade and reinstall before I get that 
far (the main reason I need ALSA).


> 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.

I going to wait 'til 2.6.8 at least - a chunk of ALSA fixes have gone into 
the 2.6.7-mm tree which hopefully will get merged with the main branch in 
time. 

However that said, from what I can tell 2.6 is mostly fine - there's
niggles in some places, but I had enough of doing the download/
reconfig/rebuild/reissue/reboot/wait for next release cycle years ago that
I'll happily hang on for a stable 2.6 first :-)

> 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.

Possibly -- I've never even investigated Gentoo ... :-)

Chris...

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