A little 10.2 update…
I’ve installed the new Slackware 10.2 on my testing partition and here are some notes I made in process:
- Intall CD boots fine with “test26.s” kernel (2.6.13 that is)
- Installation wizard works the same as before, except…
- When it offers kernel choice you don’t have “use_whatever_CD_booted_with” option anymore. “Bootdisk” option wants a floppy (I would expect this to be “use_whatever_CD_booted_with” option), “CD” option lets you choose from all prepared kernels on Install CD1, “Floppy” one is totally obsolete (Bootdisk seams to do the job) and “Other” is the one I’ve never tried.
- After reboot, kernel doesn’t find the modules it needs to load. I found out that it didn’t install them by default, so I have to install them manually from Install CD2/testing/ folder.
- ALSA modules - same as above
- After configuring Xorg, everything works as expected (it works :)
- Although GDM is default Desktop manager, it doesn’t work, because it’s not there (because of the whole GNOME thing missing) so, things fall back to KDM. A little annoying.
- KDE is till bloated, fluxbox is still the best and I’m starting to like XFce
These are the things I’ve tested so far. I have to take a look at:
- Nvidia graphics driver on 2.6 kernel
- Behaviour of USB devices
- If CD-RW works without scsi-emulation
- GWARE GNOME package
- a few other minor things I can’t remember now
All in all, system seams a bit more responsive, probably because of the new, faster kernel. Everything else seams to be the same old good Slackware. Patrick, thank you!