OK, got all my important stuff accessible from Linux, got ALSA sound configured and changed my LILO setup to boot the 2.4 kernel by default! I now, once again (my old laptop was Linux for years... Red Hat 4.something, with a 2.0.39 kernel) have a Linux laptop! This time with Slackware 9.1, my first non-RH-derived distro.
I'm sure I'll find a lot of stuff broken over the next few days, weeks, and possibly months, but I've got my java development environment and gcc, and a real unix kernel, not a kludge (a useful kludge and a good kludge, but still a kludge) like Cygwin. So it's all a matter of persistence. A lot of projects I'd been putting off can now be started, but I can't for the life of me think of what they are. I'm sure they'll hit me as the days roll on.
I've also installed Apache 2, but haven't tested any of the websites on it yet... hey, that reminds me, one of the projects that was on hold is my online pub! I can really work on that in earnest now! The idea is a website where people can easily, using only java, have a pub-like experience, hearing and seeing a bunch of friends in real-time. Naturally it's BYOB until teleporter technology improves.
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