Re: SEUL, a comment . . . . (fwd)

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   Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 19:04:56 -0700
   From: Erik Walthinsen <omega@omegacs.net>

   A comment from a former co-worker...  Most of us know that PPP is a PitA  
   (Pain in the A** :) when it comes to setting it up, and most distribs 
   completely ignore it, even though it's by far the most common way for 
   people to be connected.  Something to think seriously about when we get 
   around to networking stuff.

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   Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 11:46:05 -0700
   From: Mick O'Halloran
   Subject: SEUL, a comment . . . .

   I was taking to some coworkers today about microsoft's "business practices",
   and the talk shifted to how recent revelation made them vulnerable to
   alternatives, should the market believe they exist. THe talk turned to Linux,  
   of course, since most everyone here runs Linux on their PCs at home (we have   
   Suns as our desk tops at work!). Anyway, I mentioned SEUL, and one of them said
   the number one problem they ever had installing linux was getting it configured
   to use PPP with an ISP, that Linux fought them all the way.   

   So, the feedback from here is, have SEUL set up by default to use PPP, and make
   it easy to configure for various ISPs.
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Starting with version 4.2 RedHat comes with a graphical configurator
for PPP.  It is free as usual in RH software.  There are also plenty
of PPP configuratorsbased on tk, qt or Motif.  Of course all of them
need X and that is a problem but most people should be able to at
least make the VGA mode work.

Somze french users have started a database of conection scripts for
french ISPs.  It would be great if we had a world site pointing to a
site in every country and the installation telling the user about the
world site.

But at the risk of repeating me, configuring PPP is easy.  Mail and
news is far harder because distributions think only in LANS and
permanent connections to the Internet.

-- 
			Jean Francois Martinez

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