a new mosnter in the rising

[hictio]

i've made my first computer, gathering parts from here and there, and buying quite a bit; i finally made a jump from a 486@33mhz with less than 60 mb available on the hd, to a 120mhz pentium with a cdrom and a 6.9 gb hd[!!!!], also i've doubled the amount of ram than my previous machine had, now i have a mind boggling 40 mb of ram.
as for the distro, i went with red hat 7.1, mostly because i would like to play a bit with all the ´niceties´ that a gui can offer.
installed last week, played a lot during the weekend, already running a 24 x 7 rc5 client, the only drawback is that uit doesn't detected my serial mouse, ´mouseconfig´ crashes and dumps core when i run it. don't know waht might can be wrong. anyways, to properly set the mouse in slackware 4.0 took me a lot of sweat, i expected it to be a little easier in red hat, particularly, 7.1.
thanks a lot to mike, johny, warchild and downtime for all the input.

[mikek147]

Congrats Hictio. You've come along way in a short period of time. Seeing that I can't do it, pat yourself on the back for me. You deserve it. -mk



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If it ain't broke, fix it till it is.

[johngeeaswell]

Congratulations hictio ....

Nice to see you keeping with the times and getting into that Graphic experience....hehe.



PS: $0.02

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[downtime]

Well done, hictio. Yea, welcome to the gui world. I had a mouse problem in slack 7.1, made the mistake of trying to let x handle it, and it would crash. Maybe in your case it would be worth trying to use x to set it up, seeing as mouseconfig crashes it. Just the reverse.