I just tried installing Fedora 5 and I had fun with it....for about an hour. I'm ready for Slackware again. Slack really is a GREAT distro. One thing I did like from Fedora was Gnome. I am thinking of installing Dropline Gnome, but I have a concern. My laptop (don't laugh) is a Toshiba 1625CDT with an i586 class CPU. Unfortunately, Dropline is an i686 based package. Can I still install it and run it? I seem to remember reading about the differences in i586 and i686 packages and it boiled down to optimizations. I would greatly appreciate your input.

The difference between i586 and i686 is huge so no, that will not work.

The differences in architecture between a i586 class and i686 while seemingly small, would NOT allow a good running i686 setup with a i586 class chip.

Stick with the i386 fileset. You will be happier, and much less perplexed, in the end.

If you wish to have GNOME on Slackware, there are also projects Freerock and Gware with packages built for architecture i486.

It's a shame that those two projects are behind the times. Gnome 2.14.2 is out and those projects are still using 2.12

**EDIT**

Freerock has 2.14.0 in the current section. I hope they update it soon.

Ok, I'm a Slack-er, I can compile from source. How hard would it be to install from source? I noticed that Freerock provides build scripts. I wonder if I compiled 2.14.2 using those scripts if they would update their site.