Slackware 12.1

[Super_X]

Hello, I was wondering if any one has used slack 12.1 yet. I just downloaded the DVD .iso the other day and have been fiddling around on it for a while. It seems a lot like 10. I'm sure there's a difference, I didn't care to look for it.

What do you guys think about it?

[Blaze]

Yes, it's great.  Everything just works. 

[Super_X]

Yes, it's great.  Everything just works. 

Now that you said that, I feel like a retard. I can't figure how to get my wireless card to work. I'll give specs tomorrow morning if I cant get it.

Part of my problem is that I've been out of linux / slack for a few years.

[Camel]

Generally speaking, I think wireless cards either just work in Linux, or they don't work at all. I think the days where it was difficult to set them up are gone -- though I must admit that I've got limited experience with Slackware, so I could be wrong.

[Explicit]

Yes, it's great. Everything just works.

Now that you said that, I feel like a retard. I can't figure how to get my wireless card to work. I'll give specs tomorrow morning if I cant get it.

Part of my problem is that I've been out of linux / slack for a few years.

The wireless card you have will determine how painstaking the process will be primarily because of driver support. You might get lucky if the desktop environment that you're running has a graphical frontend to the wireless-tools package; it makes for the configuration process of the wireless card straightforward.

I ended up writing a script that connects to the different access points I had since I didn't have an interface to use. I must say that the speeds I get with my wireless card when running Slackware -- and linux overall -- isn't at all comparable to the speeds I get when running Vista; Vista's is still much quicker. That may just be due to my wireless card though.