Slackware 12.2 - it simply rocks on my old t22!I love the screen at boot up -very nice/classy.Hal worked right away -plugged in a cd and it auto-mounted.Wireless was a snap as well.
The temperatures are right where they should be consistent with XP and even cooler.That was a real surprise.I don't know if that's on account of Slack or KDE.
Performance is surprisingly snappy on a p3 900/256mb ram.That was another surprise,I think it may be slightly faster than 12.1 and whichever version of KDE that came with it.
All in all a very pleasant surprise and a viable alternative.No other linux distro can touch it at least, save for Vector perhaps but it is not the same as Slack or as all encompassing.
Thanks!

So, something else is better than slack 12.1. Just as a matter of general interest, would you mind saying what it is that is better?

I'm guessing that its not the slack 12 that your bio says that you are using.

SLACK RULES! 12.2 is no exception. It just works!

I use slackware 12.2, too. It works perfectly, once installed drivers & co. you feel in paradise. I won't leave it

I'm interested to know what you mean by this.

Do you mean 'boot time' or something else?. If so, what is the program you see running faster?.

Thanks,

Bill.

I've been using Slackware since version 9.1. I stopped using KDE after 3.2 when I discovered Fluxbox. I, too, have noticed that each new version of Slack seems somehow discreetly faster in both boot time and program performance. This has been with always upgrading Slack. I haven't done a clean install since 9.1. Some of it may be attributable to kernel improvements, while the rest I suspect is cleaner and leaner boot scripts and improved dev handling.

But who cares why?! It's Slack! It's cool! It rules! And it keeps getting better.

I agree Randux:-) 12.2 simply rocks!! Here's something interesting: 12.2 shuts downs faster than 12.1 on my old Plll 667. Specifically, I appended acpi=force to lilo.conf on both 12.1 and 12.2. On 12.1 when I would issue the shut down command my Plll would sometimes freeze for a time ( perhaps a minute). On 12.2 this doesn't happen.

Good news, hitest!

Thanks for your help on various forums btw

Guys, I just slammed down a copy of Slamd64. I think I'm in love all over again!

SLACKWARE RULES on x86 and x86_64!!!

Only thing that would make it better is a native GNOME package

You are very welcome, Randux!
Agreed! SLACKWARE RULES!!