>>Yes ... I mean the numlock option is ON and the numeric keypad >>on normal PC style keyboards works as digits not arrorws because >>we already have a separate keypad for arrows on the keyboard. > > We also have separate digits keys; they layout of the standard > four arrows is awkward at best. > >>> Ifyou mean "we'd like to switch numlock off by default", >>> then that would be great. Especially since you do need >>> the arrows bu tnot the digits during install. >> >>redundant. The arrows are there on the keyboard. > > So are the digits. I don't see that that is an argument. >
You missed the whole point. Simply put, a friend of mine tried to install Solaris and gave up because he was convinced that the graphics card and keyboard were not supported. Forget MAC and the fact that there are digits on the QWERTY keyboard across the top row. The average user simply couldn't be bothered to deal with it. At this very moment there are thousands of OS/2 users that were all "right" about Presentation Manager too. Now go buy a copy of OS/2 Warp or whatever was last. My point was that average Joe smuck user will pop in the CDROM for SUSE Enterprise Linux 10 and see a glorious beautiful install process that allows you to just skip right along happily. There are a few bumps in the path and I will write more on that later. The fact that the SUSE junk is closed source proprietary[1] and crashed warm-brick dead in 8 seconds[2] is a whole other kettle of fish. Dennis [1] http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/suse_ownership.png Novell owns all adaptations or copies? How very GPL. http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/suse_term.png It says you can run it for 90 days only? And then you have to return to an original state any actions performed by the Software!? http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/suse_license_restrictions.png Completely unreal license. [2] http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/suse_enterprise_linux_10.png After first boot I logged in and then fired the bash fork bomb at it. At the server everything halted in seconds. Everything just died. I had to pull the power plug out. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
