i am using a dell mouse in the usb slot, then i went to a compaq mouse that is optical laser. When the system boots and i have to type in my password and usernanme it works fine, but when it loads it freezes. However, my keyboard does work.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:17 PM, James Shoemaker <<a href="mailto:james@dhlake.com">james@dhlake.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Colin Burnett wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:43 AM, James Shoemaker <<a href="mailto:james@dhlake.com" target="_blank">james@dhlake.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Colin Burnett wrote:<br>
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However, the distro is 99% irrelevant to learning "linux" or programming.<br>
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With the configuration differences between distros I am not sure I would go<br>
99%. I personally use debian and at work we have several suse boxes and are<br>
constantly frustating me as to where they keep this or that config file,<br>
there are times I have had to use grep -r just to find the config option I<br>
want to change. The ubuntu box is fine as it's closely related to my<br>
"normal" system.<br>
<br>
James<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
Your frustrations are due because you're a debian user "stuck" in<br>
suse-land. If you were a suse user then it wouldn't bother you,<br>
right?<br>
</blockquote>
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But if he picks the "wrong" distro from one he may encounter on school/work systems it may be very frustrating/confusing. I still remember my frustrating transition from Slackware to Debian and encountering the sys V init system. Sys V init is much better than dealing with rc.local, but it was confusing the first time I saw it ages and ages ago.<br>
I ran rc.local WAY WAY too long as I was building everything from scratch (yes that includes clib and the compiler) rather than installing a new distro.<br><font color="#888888">
<br>
James</font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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