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Jon Agirre wrote:
By the way, updating an rpm-based distro is a painful process. My suggestion for your future installations is to use a Debian based distro, like Knoppix (with nice HW detection) or (K)Ubuntu (which is supposed to be easy to use).
Or alternatively, use yum, which is a frontend to RPM which makes it as easy as the debian based distros. If there is a piece of software you want, you just type 'yun install <name>', and it is installed with all its dependencies. It can also update existing packages. It can even update the kernel, although a reboot is required. There is a graphical client these days, but I've never tried it.
I use yum with Fedora, but there are yum repos for Centos (a RHEW repackage).
If anyone out there is still managing their Linux machines without either yum or apt, please, have a look. (Fedora used to use both, but most people seem to have adopted yum in preference to apt. I have no idea if there is any technical reason to prefer one over the other.)
[And in answer to the original question my advice is: keyboards are cheap, your time is expensive. Try borrowing a keyboard with a different interface: usb or ps/2. My new FC4 install didn't recognise my ps/2 keyboard, so I switched it for a usb one.]
