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May 06, 2005

Usability

After Matt suggested perhaps Fedora might manage to handle the wireless device easily in the laptop on which I installed Solaris 10, I decided to try Fedora Core 3 in the disk space left over.

Two usability problems have kept me from using the laptop.

  1. Fedora installed Grub such that Solaris 10 won't boot.
  2. Fedora's support for the USB mouse that came with the laptop is flaky; After a minute or so the mouse pointer drifts off to the corners of the screen and I lose control over it.

Funny how those little configuration problems render the all software on the machine basically useless. Even funnier, I quit using the laptop because of them, even though I'm sure they're easy to fix.

Posted by Mark at May 6, 2005 09:49 AM