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It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12. Most -no- all of my transitions
from version to version of Slack have been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

the_bmac wrote:

> Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

I would say that I am, yes. I have Slackware-12.0 on a couple of
laptops at the moment (one at work and the other at home), and have not
had any serious troubles ... I intend to get it installed on a few
workstations soon, and any new systems I work on will definitely run
Slackware-12.0 (or newer, depending on when I work on new systems).

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
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the_bmac wrote:
> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12.
> Most -no- all of my transitions from version to version of Slack have
> been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?
Yes AND no!
Take in consideration that Slack users did not find it laying around but
chose to use it for various reasons, the 'automagical' absence of
'issues' was NOT one of them.
So whoever is in this line, sharpened her/his 'issue' crunching teeth on
previous versions. It used to be called "The Linux learning slope".
So to answer your last sentence, yes it is smooth. In my case I knew
what I am expecting, nothing 'seamless', for this you have to go to "the
other OS" and learn how 'seamless' drives you 'loco'.

Have fun.

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

the_bmac wrote:
> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12.
> Most -no- all of my transitions from version to version of Slack have
> been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?
Yes AND no!
Take in consideration that Slack users did not find it laying around but
chose to use it for various reasons, the 'automagical' absence of
'issues' was NOT one of them.
So whoever is in this line, sharpened her/his 'issue' crunching teeth on
previous versions. It used to be called "The Linux learning slope".
So to answer your last sentence, yes it is smooth. In my case I knew
what I am expecting, nothing 'seamless', for this you have to go to "the
other OS" and learn how 'seamless' drives you 'loco'.

Have fun.

Stanislaw
Slack user from Ulladulla.

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:02:40 +0000, Stanislaw Flatto wrote:

> Stanislaw
> Slack user from Ulladulla.

Hey Flattulence,

You're still double-posting.


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In article <13gctcmgk9tkh24@news.supernews.com>, the_bmac <bm@c.com>
wrote:

> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12.
> Most -no- all of my transitions from version to version of Slack have
> been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

No problems at this end. The key is following UPGRADE.TXT to the letter
(unless you know exactly what you are doing and why).

- Martijn

Dan C wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 20:02:40 +0000, Stanislaw Flatto wrote:
>
>> Stanislaw
>> Slack user from Ulladulla.
>
> Hey Flattulence,
>
> You're still double-posting.
>
>
I noticed and it seems to stay with 'damn a.o.l.s'.
Maybe change of distro will do.

Have fun.

Stanislaw

the_bmac <bm@c.com> wrote:
> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12. Most -no- all of my transitions
> from version to version of Slack have been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

I imagine we take notice of the problems - those without problems don't
mention them - usually.

I'm really impressed. I just bought a new computer. This time around,
I didn't build it myself, so I had to deal with all the odd hardware
that gets stuck in those prefab boxes. My last install was 10.2, and
I had not before used the 2.6.x kernel.

Right now, it just seems like there *must* be more for me to do, but I'm
all done. The flash drives worked right off the bat, the nvidia drivers
installed no issue, cdrecord already recognizes my CDRW, I put in new hardware,
and the modules automagically get loaded with no mods to the rc.modules file.
I haven't needed to do a kernel recompile. Lockdown was a minimal effort -
even though I installed everything. And, most importantly, DOOM III
installed without a hitch. However, I can't get Quake III Arena to
play sound. It thinks the device is busy for some reason (it isn't).
I'm guessing the new /dev stuff is messing things up.

The only thing that was problematic was preserving the Windows Vista
garbage. I decided to keep Vista on the computer, and at first thought
it would be easy since Vista now includes a built in drive "shrink"
utility. Well, out of 320 GB, Vista could chop 8 GB off the end of
that.... After a little bit of effort I was able to get the system
files that were being stored on the end of the hard drive for some
strange reason moved, and I was able to make most of the hard drive
available for Linux use.

- Kurt

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:35:48 -0400, the_bmac wrote:

> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12.
> Most -no- all of my transitions from version to version of Slack have
> been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

I found mod-X to be a big improvement and the 2.6 kernels being standard
good. Upgrading is always dicey. I ALWAYS install on a clean partition and
migrate settings. Keeping a good log of what you have is crucial though.



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Peter

On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:35:48 -0400, the_bmac wrote:

> It seems that many users in here have seen a lot of issues with 12.
> Most -no- all of my transitions from version to version of Slack have
> been quite seamless. Anyone enjoying a smooth switch to 12?

Hi

No issues with 12 here. Runs OK for me.
Even patched to realtime kernel with patch-2.6.21.5-rt20.
Also runs virtually OK in VMWare Player.
And on my son's PC too.
NVidia 1.0-9755 drivers no probs either.

Cheers