Re: 3 button mouse

[Sque]

the pickle wrote:

Debian on a 475 has to be at least tolerable, from reports I've heard on this
list.  Hey, if nothing else, you can get it (c'mon, how much of a dent is £5 in
the average wallet?) and find out what you think first-hand, and if X is too
slow, then you can just set it up as a WWW server like The Maniac did.
 

Define tolerable?
Debain works fine in command line, it obviously makes a decent server 
running on various 68k macs. You dont need a mouse for that.
Under a desktop manager you get different degrees of slow. While I've 
run KDE and Mozillia I'm rarely bored enough to do it often.
Perhaps the extra 8mhz over my cpu makes a world of difference but I 
doubt it.

Haven't tried NetBSD can anyone offer a comparison about the performance 
of X between the two.
Can you install BSD online from the floppy image?
Hey, they're both free. Install them, choose which one you perfer, then 
see if a 3 button mouse is worth a look, it would be nice to use in the 
mac partition you'll probably still have regardless.



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Re: 3 button mouse

[the pickle]

At 19:12 + on 04/03/03, Paul Tansom wrote:

>** Sque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-04 12:37]:
>> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:28 am, you wrote:
>> > OK, this may seem a bit like sacrilege to a Mac user, I don't know, but
>> > I'm looking for a 3 button mouse for my old Macs.  I've just got hold of
>> > a full 040 that will probably go in my 630 (it's a 33MHz one, so that
>> > makes more sense than a 475) - this means I can try Debian 68k on the
>> > machine, the the concept of Linux and a one button mouse doesn't appeal
>> > (a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
>> > them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
>> > UK based.
>>
>> Install Debain. See how it runs and whether spending money on a mouse is
>>worth
>> it. You may find your use of a mouse in the GUI limited and one button will
>> work nicely.
>** end quote [Sque]
>
>That's a good point, I have no idea how X will perform on the machine!
>I've just found one going for a fiver, but have to decide - well, sort
>of now really because the auction ends!  Ho hum...

Debian on a 475 has to be at least tolerable, from reports I've heard on this
list.  Hey, if nothing else, you can get it (c'mon, how much of a dent is £5 in
the average wallet?) and find out what you think first-hand, and if X is too
slow, then you can just set it up as a WWW server like The Maniac did.

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Re: 3 button mouse

[Paul Tansom]

** Randy Beaudreault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-04 21:57]:
> >OK, this may seem a bit like sacrilege to a Mac user, I don't know, but
> >I'm looking for a 3 button mouse for my old Macs.  I've just got hold of
> >a full 040 that will probably go in my 630 (it's a 33MHz one, so that
> >makes more sense than a 475) - this means I can try Debian 68k on the
> >machine, the the concept of Linux and a one button mouse doesn't appeal
> >(a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
> >them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
> >UK based.
> 
> Yeah, install NetBSD.  LOL
** end quote [Randy Beaudreault]

Bah, humbug, you little devil :-)

Actually I do keep thinking of trying a BSD of some sort, but never have
the time/spare hardware to do it.  I've been following Linux since the
early 90's (at the time I didn't realise it was new, just an internal
IBM forum on installing it on my L40 laptop), and using it since since
the mid 90's (I was an OS/2 devotee until I switched), so familiarity is
probably the key thing - although I'm trying to learn more about the Mac
world having been given a few old ones, and BSD is probably closer to
what I'm used to than MacOS (pre-X certainly).

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Re: 3 button mouse

[Randy Beaudreault]

>OK, this may seem a bit like sacrilege to a Mac user, I don't know, but
>I'm looking for a 3 button mouse for my old Macs.  I've just got hold of
>a full 040 that will probably go in my 630 (it's a 33MHz one, so that
>makes more sense than a 475) - this means I can try Debian 68k on the
>machine, the the concept of Linux and a one button mouse doesn't appeal
>(a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
>them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
>UK based.

Yeah, install NetBSD.  LOL
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Re: 3 button mouse

[Paul Tansom]

** Sque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-03-04 12:37]:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:28 am, you wrote:
> > OK, this may seem a bit like sacrilege to a Mac user, I don't know, but
> > I'm looking for a 3 button mouse for my old Macs.  I've just got hold of
> > a full 040 that will probably go in my 630 (it's a 33MHz one, so that
> > makes more sense than a 475) - this means I can try Debian 68k on the
> > machine, the the concept of Linux and a one button mouse doesn't appeal
> > (a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
> > them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
> > UK based.
> 
> Install Debain. See how it runs and whether spending money on a mouse is worth 
> it. You may find your use of a mouse in the GUI limited and one button will 
> work nicely. 
** end quote [Sque]

That's a good point, I have no idea how X will perform on the machine!
I've just found one going for a fiver, but have to decide - well, sort
of now really because the auction ends!  Ho hum...

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Re: 3 button mouse

[Sque]

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 06:28 am, you wrote:
> OK, this may seem a bit like sacrilege to a Mac user, I don't know, but
> I'm looking for a 3 button mouse for my old Macs.  I've just got hold of
> a full 040 that will probably go in my 630 (it's a 33MHz one, so that
> makes more sense than a 475) - this means I can try Debian 68k on the
> machine, the the concept of Linux and a one button mouse doesn't appeal
> (a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
> them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
> UK based.

Install Debain. See how it runs and whether spending money on a mouse is worth 
it. You may find your use of a mouse in the GUI limited and one button will 
work nicely. 

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Re: 3 button mouse

[the pickle]

At 11:28 + on 04/03/03, Paul Tansom wrote:

>(a 2 button PC one is bad enough and I've invested in 3 button ones for
>them too).  Any ideas?  I'm not looking to spend a fortune - oh, and I'm
>UK based.

Find a Kensington Turbo Mouse if you like trackballs.

'Fraid I don't have any other ideas for "normal" mice.
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