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Slackware is GREAT ! I'm a fan since distro v.4<br>I have only ever had ONE (common) weird experience with it.<br><br>After trying to incorrectly install tainted nVidia drivers ...<br>the X server would bomb, and I'd be dropped into command line mode.<br>I kinda expected that, but the keyboard layout also<br>defaulted back to a German keyboard. Patrick's German layout.<br>So, the "Y" key and the "Z" key (and a BUNCH of others)<br>were not where I expected.<br><br>I think he may have compiled and hard-coded console things to<br>get around kernel issues (during v.2.2 - v.2.6) for the GPM.<br>Where other distros would completely PANIC (on the same hardware) <br>Slackware would let me re-edit the X server config (using German keys).<br><br>Anyway, I'd recommend that a Slackware admin try out a German key layout.<br>At least once, just to see where the "slash" key ends up.<br>:-)<br><br>Take a look:<br>http://www.aufgehts.com/sup_Germankeyboard.html<br><br>Oh, and BTW, if you are NOT using LILO, then every power-up your PC does, <br>risks writing to the master boot record. Only LILO is guaranteed to leave it alone.<br>All versions of GRUB can rewrite the MBR (or GPT), during boot.<br><br><div>---------------------------------------------------
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