The (necessary) evils of upgrades.
So late last week I found out that version 13 of Slackware had been released. And because I have so much spare time (I guess in some ways I do), I decided to upgrade.
The upgrade went very smoothly with a few runs of "upgradepkg" against my existing system I was up and running in about an hour, all my files and configuration intact.
One of the big upgrades is from KDE3 to KDE4. I'll have to say that while KDE4 is very, very pretty (I think it is the bastard child of Mac OS X and Vista) it also strikes me as very slow.
Now, this could be because I haven't optimised things properly, or because I have to rebuild some of my favourite applications to use KDE4... primarily Digikam, my most beloved of photo cataloguing software.
The one unfortunate thing is that I keep my portfolio on a removable drive hooked to my computer with a USB cable. The first time Digikam is run it catalogues all your files in your album/portfolio. Via a USB connection this proves to be rather taxing. I think it has been working for the last 1.5 hours on this task.
Ho-hum.
The upgrade went very smoothly with a few runs of "upgradepkg" against my existing system I was up and running in about an hour, all my files and configuration intact.
One of the big upgrades is from KDE3 to KDE4. I'll have to say that while KDE4 is very, very pretty (I think it is the bastard child of Mac OS X and Vista) it also strikes me as very slow.
Now, this could be because I haven't optimised things properly, or because I have to rebuild some of my favourite applications to use KDE4... primarily Digikam, my most beloved of photo cataloguing software.
The one unfortunate thing is that I keep my portfolio on a removable drive hooked to my computer with a USB cable. The first time Digikam is run it catalogues all your files in your album/portfolio. Via a USB connection this proves to be rather taxing. I think it has been working for the last 1.5 hours on this task.
Ho-hum.