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RedHat...
anyone installed RedHat 2.0 or later? I just installed 2.0 with Caldera
on Top (no Novell server to test it yet, but soon...)
a few comments: (good and bad together)
A. the best installation procedure is to go into X like I did, but get
ready for a rough journey with non-standard cards (i.e. my Matrox), which
means, only Xfree-supported hardware.. same goes to 2940 owners and the like.
B. many important things don't come as defaults, you have to manually add
a lot
C. many things lacking in here... only one win manager (fvwm), no color
Xterm, no color_ls as default, no great X apps collection, almost nothing
under /usr/src/... I liked Slackware better in that sense.
D. very professionally organized help system, mostly based on HTML, comes
with the arena browser
E. the desktop is organized very professionally (comparable to a
primitive MS program manager :-) and has nice tools for configuration,
seem to be all based on some sort of Tk thingy.
F. totally differently-organized /etc/rc.d with dirs for each of the run
levels etc.
more or less sums the major points...
one more thing, a question for myself...
as the commandline for GPM suggests, I ran it with the -R option, and let
Xaccel see it through /dev/gpmdata as a MouseSystems mouse, but that
causes wierd reactions from my mouse button, and the server thinks I am
keeping buttons pressed when they are not etc. (but it sees all three
buttons correctly and all)
any ideas why, or other solutions? My mouse is a 3-button Logitech Pilot
mouse, connected to /dev/ttyS1.
thanks...
Ira
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