From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from shawmail.shawcable.com ([64.59.128.220] helo=bpd2mo1no.prod.shawcable.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193MJT-0005gc-00 for ; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:36:55 -0400 Received: from bpd2mi2no.prod.shawcable.com (bpd2mi2no-qfe3.prod.shawcable.com [10.0.184.121]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HD300KVEFWMUY@l-daemon> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:36:22 -0600 (MDT) Received: from nomad.shawcable.com ([24.70.172.254]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 (built Feb 21 2002)) with ESMTP id <0HD300AKTFWLDN@l-daemon> for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Wed, 09 Apr 2003 14:36:22 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 16:36:55 +0200 From: Doug Sutherland Subject: Re: Slack 9 problems!!! In-reply-to: <20030409202947.GC451@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> X-Sender: wearable@mail.shawcable.com To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-id: <5.1.0.14.2.20030409163416.00ad3090@mail.shawcable.com> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed References: <5.1.0.14.2.20030405113312.00ad7b60@mail.shawcable.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030405102215.00aeae40@mail.shawcable.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20030405113312.00ad7b60@mail.shawcable.com> Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Steve, Slack 9 is awesome ... with the new hotplug support in place it found everything for me ... slack is getting better all the time. I am a slack addict :) Patrick is doing good work. To be honest redhat is too complex to even know what it does IMO ... BTW I tried building a linux sytstem entirely from source www.linuxfromscratch.org ... lots o fun. If you really want to understand linux ... this goes down to the basics ... -- Doug At 01:29 PM 4/9/2003 -0700, you wrote: >On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:36:37AM +0200, Doug wrote: > > Thomas, > > > > > Thanks, this was vary helpful. > > > > I started on Redhat long ago in the Redhat 5 days, then > > switched to slackware a few years ago. Yes there is a lot > > to learn, but if you persist, slackware is a great system. > > It is great because of its simplicity. That may not seem > > true right now, but it will later if you keep on plugging. > > If you have more slackware questions, feel free to send > > me email directly. I've done so many slackware installs > > I can almost do it in my sleep. > >Yeah and now the 9.0 release was pretty to upgrade in place too. Past >experiences with upgrading in place usually ended up having to be a >complete reinstall but this time, I was able to update the various >packages tweek a few files in /etc and away I go! Sure handy to have >diff around to compare the new files from the upgrade with the >original ones. > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup@braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup