On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:07, FoulDragon@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 8/19/03 7:02:00 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
> dennisk@fastq.com writes:
> 
> > What is it about Slackware that you dislike? Packagewise Slackware is
> > pretty up-to-date. Of course, Slackware doesn't do a little of
> > hand-holding like Mandrake and RedHat.
> 
> I usually like Slackware much.  I want more packages though, and direct 
> rendering didn't work right.  AFAICT, the 2.4.x kernel and XF86 4.3.0 needs a patch 
> to play well together.  Fine, except that my cheap-CD site decided I didn't 
> need the K series.
> 
> So I get to play the "download the kernel, research problem, find patch, 
> consider that applying patch will probably make upgrade to next minor kernel 
> version a pain, find hard disc is malfunctioning, replace hard disc, repeat game.
> 
> When 2.6.0 arrives, I'll check the next Slack release.  However, you must 
> admit that shovelware is good for those of us on 44k connections with 80G hard 
> discs to fill.

Check www.linuxpackages.net for lots of pre-built Slackware packages.
Although, since the Slackware package system is based on tarballs it's
very easy to create your own packages. 

I can't speak about direct rendering, but there have been no issues here
with video.

Dennis