Hi,

Having had a lot of problems trying, unsuccesfully, to get SuSE to
work, I've decided to give Red Hat a try.

But before I do, can anyone please advise if there are any known
problems getting Red Hat to recognise my USB keyboard? I really don't
want to come up against the same problem again!


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Peter

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Peter wrote:
quote:

> Hi,
>
> Having had a lot of problems trying, unsuccesfully, to get SuSE to
> work, I've decided to give Red Hat a try.
>
> But before I do, can anyone please advise if there are any known
> problems getting Red Hat to recognise my USB keyboard? I really don't
> want to come up against the same problem again!
>
>

It should actually work, but nobody can promise it.

I don't like suse. There are thousands of examples, where suse is cooking it
's
own soup for no reason. Their installed kernel is called k_smp-<version> for
example. I'd never search for that term if I'd like to retrieve the installe
d
kernel version with rpm...
floppys are mounted under /media/floppy. I think /media is not even named by
 any
filesystemstandard, but Suse has to mount their floppies there and not under
/mnt/floppy, as anybody else does...
Yast2 is a mess. It's a non working immitation of windows...

Redhat also does some stupid things (a route to 169.254.0.0/16 for example,
which I've never ever configured, strange solutions for ADSL connections,..)
,
but in general it's a very good distro.

Use a current redhat version (RH9) and not any old verisions like 7.0 , 7.3,
..

greets Boris

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Boris Glawe wrote:
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> Peter wrote:
> 
>
> It should actually work, but nobody can promise it.
>
> I don't like suse. There are thousands of examples, where suse is
> cooking it's own soup for no reason. Their installed kernel is called
> k_smp-<version> for example. I'd never search for that term if I'd like
> to retrieve the installed kernel version with rpm...
> floppys are mounted under /media/floppy. I think /media is not even
> named by any filesystemstandard, but Suse has to mount their floppies
> there and not under /mnt/floppy, as anybody else does...
> Yast2 is a mess. It's a non working immitation of windows...
>
> Redhat also does some stupid things (a route to 169.254.0.0/16 for
> example, which I've never ever configured, strange solutions for ADSL
> connections,..), but in general it's a very good distro.
>
> Use a current redhat version (RH9) and not any old verisions like 7.0 ,
> 7.3,...


I like RH7.3, it's rock stable compared to the new ones, and you have a lot
emore options in Gnome than you have in Gnome2 (which is mostly in a none
finished stage).

//Aho

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J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:

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>
> I like RH7.3, it's rock stable compared to the new ones, and you have a lo
t
> emore options in Gnome than you have in Gnome2 (which is mostly in a none
> finished stage).
>
>   //Aho


Sadly RH 7.x has it's end of lifetime on 31.12.2003. So there will then
no more update packages by Redhat for it.

Alexander


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Peter wrote:
quote:

> Hi,
>
> Having had a lot of problems trying, unsuccesfully, to get SuSE to
> work, I've decided to give Red Hat a try.
>
> But before I do, can anyone please advise if there are any known
> problems getting Red Hat to recognise my USB keyboard? I really don't
> want to come up against the same problem again!


You haven't said which version of Red Hat you intend to try. I've been using
USB keyboard and mice since IIRC RH 7.3 with no problems.

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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 13:43:18 -0700, Paul Lutus <nospam@nosite.zzz>
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>Peter wrote:
> 
>
>You haven't said which version of Red Hat you intend to try. I've been usin
g
>USB keyboard and mice since IIRC RH 7.3 with no problems.


Hi,

I intend using RH 9


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Peter

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