Well, my beloved gentoo distro has become somewhat unstable, so I've switched back to elx at least temporarily.
A few notes: 1) I've stripped out some of the offending daemons, so startup/shutdown is a little faster. Still looking at removing others, but going slow to avoid breaking anything. 2) The sysv editor they offer on the kde menu is broken - segfaults immediately, but they do offer tksysv which works. 3) I found rpm versions of xfce and sylpheed, and they went in without a hitch, even though not specifically designed for elx. It appears that anything redhat/mandrake crafted will work. 4) Most of my problems with the 2.4.17 kernel are not compiler related, but rather due to the elx default kernel config compiling everything under the sun. When I backed out to my standard config, even the much maligned (by me) gcc3 compiler works ok. Now I'm up and running on the new kernel, but elx wants something called 'supermount' in the kernel. Causes a few "failed" messages at boot, but nothing serious. Will need to track down. 5) Unlike every distro I've used in the past, elx does not include the telinit command, so the only way I could switch to run level 3 was to edit /etc/inittab and reboot. 6) The earlier reported inability to get to cd-rw devices was solved by the earlier post from Mike Andrew - elx uses /dev/scd0... instead of /dev/sr0.... 7) Still running on reiserfs - will investigate ext3 soon. 8) Even found an rpm version of aterm that works. 9) Found and fixed the beloved by mandrake, et al., but not by me, aliases that make every rm command prompt for permission. elx sticks this in the ~/.bashrc file, so I probably need to trash it in the skeleton file for users as well. 10) Still finding and fixing font sizes for various apps, since elx brought up my screen in the highest resolution available. Yeah, I know how to change the resolution, but I like the additional screen real estate provided by the higher resolution. 11) Still need to drag over some of my ...rc files for xfce so I can get rid of the ugly gray terminal screens. May the force be with you! -- Collins Richey - Denver Area WWTLRD? - ELX-1 system k2.4.17+xfce+sylpheed _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
