Hi Darrick Darrick Hartman wrote:
> For most people it's much cheaper to buy a separate external device as a > wireless AP than it is to buy an internal card plus the cables and > antennae. Yeah, I understand that. A minipci card plus antenna costs me about 15 USD, a WLAN router only about 15 USD more. However, looking at this from a maintenance aspect, it is awful to use two routers in the network... > We could move some of those things forward, but over time, > they will suffer because they are not maintained. We'd rather not > include that code unless there is someone who will step forward to > maintain it. > Possible, yes. But on the other hand, if you simply bundle WLAN drivers with the kernel (which are part of the kernel) and the hostap package, then that's it more or less. Users should then just edit the hostap.conf file by hand. Then there is no maintenance and, actually, there won't change much, either. > We're also likely to drop the Solos ADSL support for the same reason. > We're not aware of anyone currently using that feature. > Well, me neither :-) > Moving to the new environment (and eglibc) will allow us to add new > features that will be more widely used (such as gtalk integration and > all of the glibc compatible binary-only modules that are compiled by > Digium). > Sounds interesting. Looking forward to the new environment. > I believe those were the two biggest things that will change in the next > major release. There will be more discussion soon on the astlinux-devel > mailing list. I would suggest joining that mailing list and having > these types of discussion there. > Hmm, where to find this list? There is none on gmane, and the one on sourceforge is read-only. (I'm not using email, only web or newsreader based tools for mailing lists.) Thanks Michael > Darrick > > On 05/01/2011 03:19 PM, Michael wrote: >> Hi Darrick >> >> That is really bad news :-( >> >> For me that seems to be a pity. I am using astlinux as my central router, >> netboot server and, of course, asterisk server. It works absolutely >> great. >> >> If you drop wifi support, one would need to buy and add another separate >> WLAN router. Seems to be quite a waste and would also yield a pretty >> inefficient setup with two routers. >> >> So, please keep the wifi support. Just leave it the way it is now. No new >> development necessary. No special maintenance either. That should not be >> too much work then for the developers, I hope. >> >> I would be very grateful. >> >> Michael >> >> P.S.: Is there anything else you are planning to drop in the new release? >> >> Darrick Hartman wrote: >> >>> On 05/01/2011 02:50 PM, Michael wrote: >>> >>> Michael, >>> >>> We are working on a long-term upgrade, but it will be some time before >>> that is ready. We will not be changing from the current kernel major >>> version for the 0.7.x release series. That is a long-term stable >>> release. The version we're planning for the next major AstLinux release >>> will be newer and will be one of the long-term stable releases. >>> >>> Now for the bad news. It's very likely we will drop wifi support. It's >>> a feature that a relatively small number of people are using. None of >>> the current developers are using it which makes it difficult to >>> maintain. >>> >>> Darrick >>> >>> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software > The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network > management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial > acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
