it's fun allright...especially that the first testing machine I had it up and running in a day, and the production box I got it up in a week

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I chose slackware because it's the closest to unix and it has been there about 10 now and i think it's the most mature
the funiest thing about the issue that u just solved is that on my testing machine where i installed ZM for the first time it's working fine
it was a bit chanllenging until I realized that I could only see streaming images only with cambozola (tried all options there at the images tab)
the tesint machine is a:
P4 1.4Ghz, 384 RAM 20Gb HDD slak 10.2 and acustomized 2.6.13 kernel
perhaps You could tell me where to find any change in the variables so we can debug it?