JimC wrote: > Right now, the single biggest stumbling block is the fact that > networking sucks, and we need a network to function. However, I can, > without reservation, say that networking is LIGHT YEARS ahead of where > is was 15 or so years ago (anyone remember GENOS and GENSH for Netware, > for example?).
Networking is far ahead of where it was. I started serious networking work in the early 1970s. Ethernet was invented in 1973....but didn't make it out of the labs until much later. Metcalfe started 3Com about 79. If you read the Beginners forum, you see two main topics for problems: networking and ripping. It seems to me that folks who are interested in non-mainline stuff, like running SqueezeCenter on Linux, are already fairly facile computer users, even if their experience is with just Windows or Macs. I am sure that networking will be the major problem area ten years from now, while we are all listening to our Transporter 5 and SqueezeBox 17s. I'd be willing to bet it will still be a problem 20 years out. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
