Ron Youvan wrote:
>> What is a good version of linux to learn the command line on? My
>> skills are lacking and I want to
>> improve them.
>
>
> I don't expect there should much difference, except Slackware comes
> with a
> mouse in LINUX and Mandrake doesn't. (Suse has it but my friend can't
> get it to work ???)
> The rest, I have no idea.
The package you are looking for is "gpm". This provides mouse cut and
paste from within a virtual console.
The largest "problem" is loading the appropriate mouse driver and
letting gpm have access to it while not fighting with your X server if
it is running in the background. I've found that 2.6 using
/dev/input/mice makes this "problem" moot.
Honestly, there are numerous HOWTOs and FAQs out there on this. Just
google "gpm mouse HOWTO".
- Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com
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