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RE: RedHat...



A. Is Caldera worth the effort? I mean - since caldera is older RedHat, I 
need to install Caldera, and then upgrade the Red Hat. is it worth the 
effort, or can I settle for Red Hat 2.1 only?

B. Do you think SlackWare 3.0 would be better?? from what I Saw included in 
the RedHat - it has a lot of things that Slackware doens't have. like, httpd, 
irc, etc (not that it's big deal installing everything - but, u know :) (and 
setting up color_ls shouldn't be really THAT tough ;).

C. about the logitech mouse. I got MouseMan Cordless - and I set it up under 
Microsoft/MouseMan in the XAccel - and it works just fine. try it out.  

--- On Mon, 5 Feb 1996 10:34:11 +0200 (IST)  Ira Abramov 
<ira@bushwack.gilo.jlm.k12.il> wrote:

>
>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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