I gave in. After 9 years of Slackwareism on my machines my desktop had it coming a long way. Last night I had the final blow as Slackware (and probably me, a bit tired) failed to allow me to burn a simple iso with cdrecord. I gave the brand new Hoary install-CD-kit a try. In about 1 hour of basic config and apt-get the whole system was up running again. The advantage of having most of the files you use on a separate disk became aparent. I can basicly change OS any day I want, as long as it supports ext3. Nice to know. Ofcourse there are always things that goes ‘not like planned’ when you install something. I had to add a few packages and fine-tune apt to get java working, but when I had sorted that, and the flash-issue, things we’re looking pretty neat.

Half a day into Ubuntu-desktopism I feel a bit weird. It’s been fun to do all those library dependency fixes and hack away on my own little system. I guess this only means that I have to find a little box to put in the closet and play with instead.

One problem remains yet — My Gnome-session tend to "freeze" up after a while. The cursor of the mouse still works, and the music plays from Xmms. I can even log in with ssh from remote and do stuff, but the session is not workable. The keyboard does not allow me to switch to any tty and no clicking of the mouse changes anything. No sign of error have been found in my logs either. I’ve tried a few settings on xorg.conf too see if they helped, but so far, no luck. Any help on this, or a light moment would be very welcome. I never had this problem while using Slackware on the same hardware. No HW have been changed etc.