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[SimonB]

> 
>>>It's bollocks under linux so you have to have an ugly
>>>and possibly less comfortable mouse for linux.
>>
>>Wrong again I'm sure someone with your wealth of knowledge could write
>>some
>>drivers for it?
>>
> 
> 
> No, it's bollocks because it only has one mouse button and unix window
> managers prefer three but are workable with two.  One button means you
> spend more time on keyboard pressing meta keys so you might as well not
> bother with the mouse and use keyboard focus controls.
> 
> It doesn't need drivers written for it as a standard usb product you can
> plug it in a go with modern linux systems.  In an older style distro
> (assuming you have usb and human interface stuff in the kernel) it's just
> a case of telling X where to find the pointing device information.
> 
> Writing drivers won't add a couple of mouse buttons ;-)
> 
> 

Using OsX here at work, the one button mouse is annyong at first, 
thinking how the hell do you right click as sometime you do need to 
right click (its ctrl + click), mind you cna use the menus to do the 
same thing.

MY two point i wated to make was that yes the one mouse ubtton works 
well for osx, but i have been using X and blackbox on my mac a while ago 
quite happily without difficulties of usability, ok you have to use the 
meta keys a lot more but it makes not much idfference.

The awkward part is when you are playing things like quake on it.

Anyway, i have had my 7 button trackerball plugged into a mac and it 
works happily, and from a pc users perspecitve it is far more usable 
than the single button.

So its more that osx one button other stuff min of 2, its ore dpendant 
on what you are doing than what you are using.