[plug] Centos config at install and devices

[hatari]

Just tried installing Centos 4.2, then 4.3.  Chose Centos because it is 
billed as a "re-badged RedHat distro".

However it won't recognise the Microsoft mouse as such, nor the 
Microsoft keyboard as such.

Consequently I seem to be getting "glitches" with the keyboard. 
Sporadically and regularly it wants to sometimes print repeating 
characters as I type (or backspace too many characters).

I don't think the glitches are because it installed ext2fs - as per 
loading messages - instead of the requested ext3fs journalling, nor the 
i386 instead of the i586 requested options.  Not sure if it is due to 
"plug and play" irregularity in the bios selection.

However I did manage to change the keyboard "type", and finally get it 
to "stick" after a couple of tries.

Since I don't use commandline much I try to use a gui.  This is always a 
massive problem in Linux.  There really isn't a good control panel for 
administration (unless someone would like to point out some usage to 
me).  Kudzu did not fix the mouse problem - since there is no 
opportunity to select and set the "type" of mouse.

I have tried many distros and each one seems to have some kind of 
downside in the admin area.  This is probably due to the broad "church" 
that looks after distro development.  Nothing seems to be elegant or 
sweet, but mostly troublesome - no matter what you try to do.

Any tips?  Is it worth it?

wayne