I have installed slack 12.1 on a 10GB partition on my machine. I've only used it for a few minutes, but it seems to work. Here I am posting on my blog, after all.
I must say, installation was the smoothest I've ever experienced in a Slackware release (I've used 3.0, 4.0, 10.something, and now 12.1). Slackware recognized my odd hard drive setup (four Windows partitions with a linux partition in the middle), it found my network and sound cards, and installed it packages without a hitch. The boot manager installed properly. That was something I used to have alot of trouble with. It also recognizes my USB keyboard even in the splash screen, something else that used to be problematic.
The boot manager is now displayed on the Slackware splash screen, an effect I really like. A separate Lilo menu is available with a key press, or you can use the arrow keys to select between options on the splash screen itself.
For some reason, I am having to choose the text display mode at each startup. I'll have to look for a .conf entry or something to use the right default without asking me every time.
So the installation went really well, and now I'm off to play with my new OS!
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