GNOME Slackbuild: June 2008 Archives
Now that I have a working Slackware installation on my test box, which has seen Slackware before, everything is working so well that I'm reluctant to install one of the GNOME add-on projects just yet.
A lot of this is due to the fact that while Slackware is KDE-centric, it also installs with the XFCE, Fluxbox and FVWM window managers, among others, and I'm content to use XFCE at the moment, along with Firefox for Web browsing, KWord if I need it, and Mousepad for text editing.
I haven't even added Abiword, which I've done in the past in Slackware.
What I did add was slapt-get. The apt-like package manager for Slackware seemed like a very good idea due to the relatively large number of updates since Slackware 12 was first released. It worked great.
The box upgraded overnight, and everything came up fine in the morning.
I would like to be running Slackware 12.1, but as I wrote previously, none of the install kernels would boot on this VIA C3 Samuel-based machine. I got a message about not having enough memory, even though I have 256MB — more than enough.
I'd like to try an upgrade from 12.0 to 12.1, but it looks as hard or harder than the OpenBSD 4.2 to 4.3 upgrade I did recently, except with instructions that are less detailed.
But as always, Slackware runs as fast as anything, and everything pretty much works.
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