Slack up and running – 364 days old

[Alakazam]

Finally, after a couple days of trials and tribulations, Slack(64) 13.37 is up on VBox, and what a trip it was for this neophyte, LOL. As I've been warned, it was a big learning curve for sure! I installed KDE but the DT would not come up, it would fault about halfway in the loading process with stuff I could not understand so we went with XFCE and I must say it's not too bad. Even running in VB, Slack is pretty darn responsive, a special thanks to Grogan for his many articles about Slack, much appreciated.

The only thing I've done so far is to get flash and audio working so I've a long way to go including some updates.

[Dark Angel]

I've become quite fond of Slack, though I had some teething issues coming from an Ooga Booga background. XFCE is definitely my preferred DE now.

[Grogan]

There is no reason why KDE can't work in Virtual Box... did you install the virtualbox additions? I would probably not enable hardware acceleration in the display settings of the virtual machine, it won't work correctly anyway (It's kind of fake hardware acceleration... it may fool some things but most things that require it won't work anyway)

I prefer XFCE myself, but KDE should work.

[Alakazam]

At the time I did not have additions running, I'll give it another go in a few days Grogan, can't thank you enough for the info in your articles.

[Grogan]

I'm glad you're making use of it. Most of it should be still relevant, except the "Configuring X in Slackware" stuff, which is outdated. (i.e. X auto configures these days)

Installing the virtualbox additions should set up the display driver correctly.

[Alakazam]

So far so good, even did an upgrade-all today and it didn't break anything yet that I can tell. I still haven't got around to trying KDE, I'm kind of enjoying XFCE.