On 9 Jun 2003 at 0:05, Gordon Messmer wrote:
At the moment, only 32MB (in the form of 4 8MB Simms). Since this system is primarily just an experimentation and Linux "learning" station; it is on the low end of the totem pole for upgrades via "hand-me-downs", so it will be a while before it gets it's max-out at 128MB. :)
I understand. I hope you find what you learn to be of some value. Much of the underlying UNIX-like software is basically the same now as it was then, but almost none of the X software is. What you learn about X will probably be of limited use to you on modern machines.
I'll just stick with Netscrape for now. I do have a version 5.something of Opera I plan on trying soon. I attempted to install it earlier, and learned there were some missing dependancies or something like that.
That's probably because Opera was compiled for LSB, which didn't exist when RHL 5.2 was released. You'd need at least 6.2 (I think) to run LSB applications.
2: This system has a PS2 Microsoft Intellimouse (with a scroll wheel).
http://koala.ilog.fr/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Thanks for the link. Quite a lot of info to sort through there; so I have it bookmarked for when I am fresh. Been geeking about all yesterday and well into the night, and it's about time to call it quits for this session. :)
It's one of those things that I refer to as historical information. By completing the excercise of making the scroll button work using the information on that page, you'll learn a lot about the way input is handled under X, but nothing that matters when you're using a modern distribution as a desktop. All of those implementation details have been made just that: implementation details.
If I can find someone locally with a high speed connection and a CD-Burner (I'm on a 56K connection via a FreeSCO router), I'll see if I can arrange to have one of those two downloaded and burned onto a CD. In fact, I just thought of someone who can probably do this.
If you can't find someone, there's always http://www.cheapbytes.com
I might do that. I have plenty of spare parts to cobble together experimental systems. At the moment though, I'm just focusing on RedHat (since that is what I have the most experience with). I may convert my MINIX box into a dual-boot MINIX/Slackware system soon though,
You have a MINIX box? 8)
since with a Slackware setup, I can compile packages for FreeSCO.
I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do the same with RHL.
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