Updating Slackware

I have an old router/gateway, still running Slackware 10.0, and since i can't afford more than 5-10min downtime on that box, i'll have to find a reliable way to upgrade "on-the-fly" the os to a newer release.

Afaik, there are a lot of folks that managed to update slack to a new release, using either swaret or slapt-get. Either way, i plan to upgrade to 10.2 first, then try to upgrade to 11.0

Well, slack isn't Debian, and this procedure will surely give me some headaches.
If you have any experience with upgrading Slackware, please leave me a note/comment/whatever.

Thanks!

Ati released a new version of the Radeon Proprietary drivers package

A few days ago i've noticed ati has released version 8.42.3 of it's proprietary drivers package for radeon, http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/linux/linux-radeon.html


I was using previously the 8.40.* version on my Samsung R20 Notebook running Debian Etch, that has an integrated Ati radeon Xpress 1250. First time I have installed
the drivers package I had to manually compile the kernel module (fglrx) as the ati auto-installer failed at some point when trying to install it.

After getting the latest 8.42.3 version, i was pleasantly impressed that it worked out-of-the box.
Quick install:

[~] # wget https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run
[~] # chmod +x ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run
[~] # ./ati-driver-installer-8.42.3-x86.x86_64.run
[~] # aticonfig --initial

Well, to my surprise it automagically compiled the kernel module and after restarting the X server, i was running the new version already.

Quick test:

[~] # fglrxinfo
[~] # fgl_glxgears