Slackware 8.1 experiences

[Collins]

Over the weekend I put up Slackware 8.1 and ran for a couple of days. 
Pretty uneventful experience.  The only real drawback is that they
don't package Sylpheed, but at least they do offer Xfce.  A few notes:

1) Slackware is still stuck in the Lilo world (some would say right
on).  I let it create a Lilo bootdisk, but for some reason that failed
to boot.  So I just updated my grub menu.lst and continued.

2) I couldn't get the precompiled kernel to recognize my ethernet card
even after loading tulip, so I had to move over my kernel config and
compile my usual kernel which worked without a hitch.

3) The system works great - good choice of app versions.  Galeon had a
few hangups, but nothing terrible.  I didn't load or try kde.

4) My one drawback, and I'm sure Slackware afficionados have a cure
for this one, would be the problem of maintenance.  I've gotten too
spoiled by gentoo where everything is done for me.

5) On a scale of 1-10, I'd give Slack at least an 8.

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Collins Richey - Denver Area - WWTLRD?
gentoo(since 01/01/01) 2.4.18+(ext3) xfce-sylpheed-mozilla