Whoo, fully upgraded from Slackware 9.1 to 10.0 in just under two and a half hours. And without rebooting, even — uptime is still 77 days and counting…
The only major pain was updating config files in /etc, but even then the differences were pretty minor (Slackware’s major draw is that it keeps things pretty simplified and straightforward for power users, so there aren’t umpteen zillion layers of wrappers that get completely rewritten from release to release). The only annoying one was Apache, due to some loadable modules being moved around.
Now to see what all the hubbub over GNOME 2.6 and the new Nautilus is… Tomorrow. Zzzzz….
Update:
So far only two things seem broken: SpamAssassin had to be reinstalled because it likes to hardcode paths to the Perl library directories when you ‘make’ it, and the session startup path to ‘gkrellm’ had to be adjusted since it’s an official package now and thus moved from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin.
I don’t really like the new ‘spatial’ method of traversing folders in Nautilus in GNOME 2.6; I like my directories deep and don’t want six gazillion windows open just from browsing through them. Fortunately though, it’s configurable. Somewhere…
I wish my first exposure to Mandrake 10.0 was as smooth. While the install is still pretty much foolproof (save a few missing options that still have me shaking my head in confusion; such as no option anymore to test the X video setup), I’m seeing more problems than I’ve ever had with Linux since I started using it. I rarely get mouse response in X, no matter how many times I reconfigure or reset everything. Gnome 2.4 has a habit of doing nothing — all it responds to on half of my logins is CTRL-ALT-BKSP. If the menus respond at all, nothing I select runs.
For a distro that has been very good to me, this is a little more than disappointing. I won’t even go into the details about how MDK has handled all the crap in /etc…