Re: Latest Mandrake
Hello,
On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 06:07:45PM +0200, Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> The guys who used it could start "net sharing" without editing any
what's "net sharing"?
> to other people (using windows) with dhcp. And surely, those people
DHCP I find mediocre of not _much_ value (at least it lacks some
nice features compared to bootp and in the implementation that
shipped with potato).
> would probably not be able to do it by themselves. They would need
> a horrible "linux system administrator" guy who would configure the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That would be me...
What's your profession?
> it would add many many points to debian's value. It seemed to me as a
> config tool that was concerned about the user, which is something I
> haven't seen for ages in config tools.
Umm, you don't sometimes touch a "Wizard" as of M$-speak? They also
take care of the user, or at least of the problem of stopping the
user to do something.
> Well, in a way, stuff like internationalization works... Whatever good
It's probably something to do with that infamous "volunteer effort".
> My suggestion is this:
> * A group works out certain "scenario"s. Certain common tasks that
> a debian user should be able to perform easily.
> * Works them out in such a way that all relevant subsystems are enhanced
> to make that scenario happen.
... and yield complete(ly) unusable menus for every window manager on the
system...
> Example: _no_ kernel recompilation to have "net sharing". Whatever,
> the specifics aren't important.
If you by any means mean "doing NAT for shared Internet access", then you
don't need to recompile a Debian kernel, too. Just (if you use 2.2.17)
load the modules, set the appropriate rules, and off you go. Setting up
basic DHCP should also be a matter of some 30 minutes at most.
Best Regards,
--Toni++
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