The Slink upgrade went great for me. Upgraded without rebooting. A couple of days later I needed to reboot to run a windows program (it had been 2 weeks). I had read "The great X reorganization" but forgot to remove xdm and xfs. So when I did reboot I got the xwindows login which is why I am writing this.
I think that installing xdm and xfs as part of the upgrade is a very bad idea for several reasons: 1) This is a very big change to my system, I have never had these packages before- I wanted an upgrade on what I had. This is a fundamental change in how my system works that I didn't ask for or want. 2) Now the stability of my system is only as good as the stability of X. Linux is a very stable system but xwindows has occasional problems. With these packages installed overall stability is compromised in the name of "user friendliness" Things like this are the reason that I left MS in the first place. 3) If you want to do any kind of maintenance that requires X to be shut down now you have to mess with getting out of it- its an unneeded extra step (which was not asked for). It didn't take me too long to figure out how to get rid of this unsolicited nuisance but I had read "The great X reorganization" which takes a while and I doubt if many people did. In the mean time I had logged onto X as root (something I very very seldom do, never- without having sued to root which is not possible with this config) When I tried to get out of X my machine locked up, something that has not happened in I don't know how long. I had to manually fix my root fs- SHHHEEEEEEESH! Oh, now this is *stable*, this is *better*-------------------------NOT!!!!! well, how about- This SUCKS---------------------------------------------------------YES!!!!! I must say that I am really disappointed that debian's install went to this, I would expect something like this from RH or someone known as the "user friendly" dist. But *not* from debian. Oh well, just thought I'd let my opinion be known. Still love Debian =) Bill Lacy PS: "User friendly" OSs should come with replacement reset switches (for later ;)