Re: [linuxiran] Slackware 9

[Zoup]

On Sunday 01 June 2003 15:48, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> Zoup,
>
> You mentioned a while ago that you have downloaded Slackware 9.
>
> How is it? Have you installed it? What are your impressions? Kepp us
> updated on it.
>
>
>
> Cheers

in one word , its Great ! 
yes i have installed it on my laptop/desktop , as you may now one of four 
slackware 9 cd's availabe for download . 
after downloading ISO image ( it takes two weeks ! ) i have write it on CD and 
boot it , i was asked for select a pre-compiled kernel (2.4.20) for specific 
hardware and filesystem needs , I would like to mention that Slackware 9.0 
supports all 4 journaling file systems: ReiserFS, ext3, XFS and JFS . i have 
choose ReiserFS , I selected my keyboard mapping and logged in as Root without 
introducing any password , After this I simply typed "setup" and I've entered 
in the installation program.the setup process isn't change much since version 
8 , you know the installation looks like Free-BSD , before slackware 9 i have 
redhat 9 installed on my system ( 12 GB Ext3 partition , 8 GB /home , 512 Mb 
Swap ) so i only have to format this partitions and start package selecting , 
Before formatting, it gave me 3 choices: ext2, ext3 or ReiserFS. Only these 
three filesystems are supported by the default bare.i pre-compiled kernel. I 
formated my Linux partition as ReiserFS . 
I will not get into depth with the package installation , slackware is source 
based , including KDE 3.1 , Gnome 2.2 , kernel 2.4.20 , Xfree 4.3.0 , 
gcc 3.2.2 , glib 2.3.1 and ... 
one official cd's take 2 GB on my hard disk ,
After installing what I needed, the installer asked me if I have a modem, and 
I have selected my modem ttyS , note this version supports ttyS4< , so people 
with PCI modem's will not getting trouble ,After that it asked me about how 
to install Lilo . You can configure Lilo manually at install or let the 
software install it for you. I choose Manual Install just for checking 
process  . next step was network configuration , its cool and easy ! it asks 
for hostname , IP configuration ( static , dhcp ) and autodetect the NIC 
(Compex rl 2000)and load its kernel module . 
after that i have set console fonts , mouse type , zone configuration , and 
finally it asked me for root password and installation ends . 
after reboot , LiLo loads kernel and after login , i have entered startx and 
my graphic card ( gf4 ) was installed ! so no problem with Xfree but my mouse 
whell ,  I've added the following line in the Mouse Input Device area in 
/etc/X11/XF86Config : Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" 
Then i login with root Start KDE , every thing worked fine , even my sound ( i 
have sb live and always it take kernel recompile ! ) except for 3D hardware 
acceleration .
Slackware supports all hardware that the Linux kernel does, and usually the 
kernel is not bloated with unnecessary stuff. Supporting my sb live was nice 
enough , Slackware 9.0 comes with USB utilities and PCMCIA utilities. also my 
usb scanner are not working and probably won't for a while. But I don't use 
the scanner much. 

Slackware 9.0 is overall a very up to date release , I recommend it to the 
intermediate and advanced Linux users who want to learn Linux and have 
a good development environment with the latest development tools :)



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