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There's been a lot of negativity on this board lately, so here is a tale of slackware success. My new job as a software developer has a very interesting workflow. There is a linux server which has the build tools and everyones home drives, and a solaris server running NIS to allow everyone to login and mount the network drives through NFS.
It's been around for ages and no one really knows how to set up a new developer environment from scratch. There is a Ubuntu 9.04 virtual machine image that gets passed around which has been pre-configured. AFAIK newer Ubuntu releases dont even support NIS.
So i read a slackware NIS client tutorial, copied some config files over and intalled it all onto a Slackware 14.1 virtual machine. After about 15 minutes I had it all working and no longer need to use Ubuntu 9.04! Slackware had everything I needed to get setup out of the box. So heres a photo of my new development environment!
I'm brand new to slackware, but I figured I'd give it a shot on an old, beat-down Panasonic Toughbook CF-19 I had lying around. Gotta say, I like it a lot so far and I have just about everything working (the exception being the touchscreen, which only sort of works at the moment).
I have sort of a pseudo OS 9 look going on at the moment, since it's the perfect clunky look for a very clunky laptop.. and of course I had to make myself an appropriate wallpaper to really complete the experience.
Nice and clean.
Seeing that you use the open source radeon driver, I would strongly recommend to upgrade your kernel, a lot of progress has been made since the 3.10 kernel.
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