Carl -- LindowsOS
der.hans
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 22 Dec 2002 11:08:43 -0700 (MST)
Am 21. Dec, 2002 schw=E4tzte Nathan England so:
> I'm seriously considering getting a microtel from wal-mart for my little
> brother, if anything just to support the effort, but I have a question.
> If I don't go with the 99 bucks a year plan, how hard is it to install no=
rmal
> software on those things?
> I mean like, source stuff, compile, make, and make install. Does it give =
you
> all the development stuff you need? or would I be better rolling my own
> distro on it?
debian installs and runs just fine on the $200 microtel boxen. I hooked up
and ex-roommie and she's only had one problem with it. The problem was that
the mouse click events were taking place a couple of centimeters from the
pointer. This made playing mahjongg somewhat annoying :).
My theory is that amor caused the problem. Unfortunately quitting it and
even restarting X didn't fix the problem. The problem was present under KDE
and GNOME.
Doing the m$ shuffle fixed it.
I told her not to run amor again.
Lindows has only the root user and for that reason alone is not appropriate=
=2E
ciao,
der.hans
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