Masa's Journal: Slackware 9.0

Slackware 9.0 was released last week. And at the last weekend, I installed it to my "production machine".

Slackware 9.0 is nice. But not as polished as 8.1 was. Some annoyances are still around (even more than in the 9.0rc1 which I installed to my old-timer laptop).

The worst thing in this release are fonts under Mozilla 1.3. I had to switch to Gnome just because I was unable to tweak anti-aliasing settings for Mozilla (which is a GTK+-application) under the KDE environment.

To my surprise, Gnome is pretty mature nowadays. Last time checked it, it was buggy and slow and I was unable to make any changes to the default settings without crashing the whole thing. This newest version (ver. 2.2 I suppose) seems to be pretty stable and it's well polished and clean. Older versions had quite a lot of garbage (duplivated featured, useless applets etc.) but this version seens to be spartan enough for my taste.

But the best thing in this new release is the ability to upgrade the whole system from 8.1 to 9.0 without reinstalling everything.

Ah... I'm too tired to check spelling. If the text is unreadable, then just deal with it.