Comments on: Massive updates in slackware-current

By: brad

brad — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:32:16 +0000

Hi Eric
I bought an Asus 1005-HA running slackware-current and everything works beautifully to the letter.

Thanks Pat…

By: vig

vig — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:28:22 +0000

excellent work-excellent system.
Just loaded 13 on my toshiba NB100 and all appears fine so far. Although I have KDE on my slackware64 box, I installed Xfce and lxde on the NB100. (kde would be like using a sledge hammer to drive a tack). The only issue I had was an error2 message with RLW-Oo pkg. I downloaded it a second time-same result. I then ran it through src2pkg on my main PC and re-installed it-no problem. (replaced slackware12.2-with Oo running OK). Thanks – I was thinking of trying a custom LXubuntu on this but, slackware is worth the little extra effort to configure it as I like it.

By: [z]imba

[z]imba — Sat, 23 May 2009 22:10:02 +0000

Hey, thanks , i was just searching for this information -

By: Bradley

Bradley — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:11:37 +0000

I bought a Toshiba Satellite L300-ST2501 Duo Core – 2.0 GHz – 2 Gig Ram – 160 gig Hard Drive – Mobile Intel Graphic Media Accelerator – Intel Wi-Fi Linux 5100 AGN. Installed Slackware-Current and did not have to configure not (1) piece of hardware and Slack is very fast and without error.

Thanks Pat,

Slackers keep slacking on…

By: real aliens

real aliens — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:33:15 +0000

What is heck is slackware? The software made for slackers?

By: Ron Hay

Ron Hay — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:01:01 +0000

well Now running Current KDE4.2.2 on the EEE PE 901 with 2.6.29.1 kernel, nice. still working on tweaking video settings and need to get wireless working. I had to carefully choose packages to get it to fit the 4gb first drive. Leaning Learning Slackware is great. boots pretty fast. If anyone has questions about the Direction of KDE4 the Guys on the Linux Link Tech Show interviewed Arien Seigo from the KDE project very good info.

By: miken

miken — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:41:07 +0000

Just tried KDE on the toshiba NB100 mentioned above.
You’re quite right, it does work very well.

By: alienbob

alienbob — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 09:59:16 +0000

I have bought an Asus eeepc 1000h (Atom270 and 1GB of RAM) and run slackware-current with KDE4.2.1 on it. Performs real well.

The only thing sofar that did not work out of the box was wireless. The rt2860 driver which I downloaded from RaLink did not work with WPA, so I am using ndiswrapper for now. The new 2.6.29 kernel is supposed to ship with it’s own rt2860 module, so I am going to try that kernel soon.

Eric

By: miken

miken — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:04:03 +0000

Just installed current on a Toshiba NB100 (Atom 270, 1Gb RAM) and it seems excellent so far.

12.2 needed a few boot options to recognize the hard drive which current does not.
The Atheros wireless seems to work a little better.
Mic/Headphone sockets, card reader, webcam, touchpad are all working.
Suspend/Hibernate work fine.

I am using XFCE at the moment. The power management and new dual monitor features are excellent.

Haven’t tried KDE yet, I think it might be a bit much for this little machine.

Seems to boot quite a bit quicker, but that could be my imagination.

Overall, everything feels fast and smooth. Looks like another excellent job.

Thanks.

By: rrbert

rrbert — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:22:58 +0000

Hi, I have just completed a fresh install of slackware-current on a notebook (acer tm2484).
This machine has a 1.86 GHz celeron processor and 1 GB of RAM. It seems to be running very smoothly and quickly.
The install was straightforward and I chose the default ext4 fs and KDE.
I’m still running the huge smp kernel, so I will probably get a further slight improvement when I get around to installing the generic kernel and making an initrd in the next few days.

rl@freyr:~$ uname -a
Linux freyr 2.6.28.8-smp #2 SMP Thu Mar 19 14:07:59 CDT 2009 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 440 @ 1.86GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

I really like KDE-4.2.1 a lot, it has many new features and new technology that I don’t yet understand, so I’m probably only using half of its full potential. I have a lot of learning to do over the next six months or so.
Thanks to Patrick, Eric, and the rest of the slackware crew for their fine work.
rrbert