I donwload and check md5sum yesterday at average 30KB/s; upload at 10KB/s, and I took it off line today, sorry guys.

After installation, it looks good; first time try out huge26.s with manual load its kernel modules; changes /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and have to report the generic-2.6 will not works with reiserfs file system.
that is all; so far so good on my test system:
pentium 166 mmx (swap it with old 133), no kde, small hard drive; only 2Gb, about 95% used.

downloaded, checked and installed, and it was prolly the easiest, nicest, smoothest most problem-free install i've ever done...i love slackware

My -rsync is pretty much up to date, but hearing about the torrent downloads made me just have to try.

Can someone explain this interesting observation? I'm using alphageek's site and BitTorrent. One screen shows that I'm downloading the DVD @ 35KB/s with 60 seeds and 20 peers.

The 2nd screen shows that I'm downloading CD disk #1 at 133KB/s (100KB/s faster) with about the same: 70 seeds and 8 peers.

The 3rd screen shows that I'm downloading CD disk #2 at 126KB/s with 73 seeds and 7 peers.

Why is the DVD download so much slower, when the seeds and peers are all about the same? (Well, I do notice that I've got 10 more peers on the DVD than the CD's.)

--vonSt

edit: Also, I wasn't paying attention to my upload speed... the DVD is uploading at 15KB/s, but the CDs are uploading at about 4KB/s. Why?

w00T!
Slack 11 is out, finally!

...but there's no reviews in the review section yet, common people, get burning and cracking! :lol:

Here's the only one I can find online:

http://en.theweeklyrant.com/modules/...php?storyid=15

It won't help you if you want to know more about slack on the desktop, but it's still a 'review' of sorts.

Well, I've been running 11.0 since last Tuesday and I love it. It is rock-solid, stable as hell. Thank you Patrick!! Slackware rocks:-)

Hey! Slack 11.0 is out! How does a man with a new child find the time?!

Hmm. Lots of stuff to download. Maybe a two line script run as a cron job at 2:00am will not cause problems at work.

Burn isos using K3B. It even automatically tests the md5 checksums!
Mount CD1 and print off UPGRADE.TXT and follow the instructions.
Reboot, 'Welcome to 2.4.33.3' (so far so good, now to bed)
Mount CD2 and use installpkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz
Still on CD2, use installpkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/extra/[a-j]/*.tgz
( I don't want 2.6 kernel at this time)
Still on CD2, use upgradepkg /mnt/cdrom/extra/k3b*/*.tgz
Still on CD2, use installpkg --install-new /mnt/cdrom/extra/[l-z]/*.tgz
Mount CD3, use upgradepkg /mnt/cdrom/slackware/*/*.tgz
Still on CD3, use upgradepkg /mnt/cdrom/extra/'whateverelse'.tgz
Mount CD1, read CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT and follow instructions.

Yes Pat, I'm feeling brave. Cut and paste from UPGRADE.TXT to script file.
sh change_etc.sc

Now what is broken?
No sound, add back the usual line to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
No scanner, add back the usual line to /etc/sane.d/dll.conf
No printer, copy /etc/cups/printers.conf.bak to /etc/cups/printers.conf

All now OK. I'm a very happy Slacker!

My upgrade proceeded pretty much like allend's except I had checksums on the CD images I got via Bittorrent. Fortunately, the ISOs mounted, and there are md5s inside for the individual packages, so I was able to redownload the two packages that were bad instead of spending 8 more hours getting the CD images.

It all worked flawlessly until I noticed this morning that attempting to start the Control Panel, or browse anything with Konqueror crashes (with a segmentation fault in libkhtml.so).

I DO have a slightly non-kosher system. Using the standard 2.4 kernel, but I installed Gnumeric and the required libraries from the 10.1 distribution. I'm pretty sure I didn't overwrite anything. Had to install libgsf-gnome-xxx and libgsf-1.so.1 "by hand" since installpkg on that 10.1 package WOULD have overwritten some libraries. Gnumeric works well.

Everything else I use regularly works great though, Emacs, Firefox 2.0 RC2, XChat, Gaim, Thunderbird, CUPS printing to my Canon MP500, sshd, ssh, rcp, rsync, ruby.

Looks like there was another package somewhere that got corrupt, Bill. I haven't had any issues with Konqueror or KDE -- though mine was a fresh install, not an upgrade.

-- Shade

I am delighted to now have 11.0 up and running.

Just to put a dampener on things; I think that the installation, if you want to use a 2.6 kernel stinks. It might be straightforward if you are experienced but it will put off noobs if they want 2.6.

Something went wrong with my first installation which was using huge26.s and the system would not boot.

In the end I re-installed using sata.s 2.4,
booted into 2.4
installed all the kernel 2.6-smp stuff
ran mkintrd
and had a working system

Then the nvidia driver would not compile.
Of course I had forgotten to install the 2.6 source which is in a different directory to kernel 2.6-smp
Installed that, repointed /usr/src/linux
Still would not compile

So I followed the most helful instructions by agx as follows:

Following Pat's instructions from the README, copy the SMP config file:
cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.17.13
cp /boot/config-generic-smp-2.6.17.13 ./.config

Again following Pat's instructions, re-configure the source for SMP:
make oldconfig

Now, just for laughs, take a look at include/linux/version.h:
cat include/linux/version.h

Notice the first line:
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.17.13"

That's wrong - it needs updating:
make include/linux/version.h

The output of that last command should be:
CHK include/linux/version.h
UPD include/linux/version.h

Look what happened:
cat include/linux/version.h

Notice the first line:
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.17.13-smp"

Now that the release version string is correct, the nvidia installer will work.
Your module actually compiled OK, it just wouldn't load because of the errant UTS_RELEASE string.

I downloaded the iso-s (You actualy should take at least the first 3).
Installed it;
and whas done configuring it faster than before.
Then did a test:
switched to 2.6 kernel
in 0 time the system went to udev from hotplug. no re-config! :-)

Slackware IS the way Linux is ment to be. You have my word on it.

Mr. Patrick, thaks a lot!

I have to agree that the 2.6 kernel itself was somewhat of a disappointment. It's not terrible, but could have used a bit more testing. And I also agree that having to go and install stuff from /extra even after choosing huge26.s specifically was unnecessary and also a bit disaappointing.

Other than that though I'm impressed with absolutely everything else. Especially things like hotplug/udev transitions and the ability to run both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels almost at will while having benefits of both. Not to mention the speed. I would have been waiting for agx's instructions as well if I wasn't already going to compile my own kernel for use. I did test out the regular huge26.s kernel and had those same problems plus some other unique issues. So I keep it as my backup kernel for when I need to recompile a new kernel in an emergency. Some people just don't compile their own kernels so that is an issue.

All in all, though, fantastic distro as always. With a little help from Alien Bob I have everything I need, and more, up and running. Even the eye-candy works as it should.

Enjoy everyone.... I know I am.

I did a virgin install, using the same packages that I used for my upgrade, in a sub-directory, and chroot'ed to it. Konqueror and the Control Panel work fine from there. So it's something I've messed up in my upgrade installation. I checked /lib, /usr/lib, /opt/kde/lib, /usr/lib/qt-3.3.6/lib, and a few other library directories, looking for differences between the old and new installation. There were some old versions in /usr/lib, and a bunch of added libraries in the old installtion. I moved the earlier versions in /usr/lib elsewhere. Problem persists. I may have to switch to the virgin install to totally fix things, something I don't relish at present.

Hi Bill, interesting seeing youre MO here.

Nathan

Nathan,

I'm just as surprised to see YOU here.

I haven't given up on Puppy. Typing at it on my laptop right now. But I've had a place in my heart for Slackware for a couple of years now, and am running it on my server machine. Lets the Mac users in the house, and Puppy on my laptop, print without getting up (well, one of them, I haven't yet figured out how to get the older OSX version to see the printer).

Finally, I managed to write up a how-to for mythtv on Slackware 11. Hope people here find it useful. It is still a work in progress so email me if you find mistakes or inconsistencies.