Re: Latest Mandrake

["Eray Ozkural \(exa\)" <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>]

Toni Mueller wrote:
> 
> ipmasq has shot me in the leg by munging my hand-crafted firewall rules so often
> and in inexplicable ways that I consider it to be a misfeature in the first place.
> I also was not able to figure out how it works in a reasonable amount of time...
> You are the first user I meet who claims that ipmasq is useable.

Well, on the Mandrake it was just a click away. That's what impressed
me. On debian, it'll never be that easy because developers have to
*co-operate* to make such things happen (gui, kernel modules, net
configuration, h/w detection, etc...). That's what I stress, and of
course my second point is that this particular case is just an instance
of a more general problem:

Debian distribution tends to postpone usability issues to a _later time_
which hardly comes about. If people agree on what system features are
essential and easy-to-use then people can then work together to make
it happen.

Thanks,

-- 
Eray (exa) Ozkural
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
e-mail: erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo