>While I completely respect those that want to run a router off of a 1.44MB >diskette drive, some of us want squid, dansguardian, and samba running (on a >local hard disk) AND we want the warm-fuzzy of knowing we can reboot the box
But even for the SOHO/floppy user, having the two-step, more expansive initial configuration process that would be more user friendly and helpful would be a big advantage. I still remember my first attempts at getting Bering running--and I haven't switched to uClibc because I don't particularly want to do it again. >to a known state. (And yes, I have a system that boots from CD-R, partitions >the hard disk, formats it, and then makes the cache directories for squid >before squid.lrp is loaded. And no, you don't call it a router at that >point. But I still like to think of it as a LEAF box. :-) ) Well, there ARE advantages to having your border guardians as simple as possible. Layered if necessary. >It would be nice to scale the LEAF way of doing things up, rather than abandon >it because we have "larger media needs" or because we need 24x7x365 >uptimes. Oh, yes. I'm convinced there's still a need for floppy implementations of LEAF for SOHO users. >As I said in my original post: "Or, then again, its possible I've just >completely lost it." I have a need for enterprise configuration management; >but I'm also sensitive to the fact that the LEAF community may not have those >same needs. I think we all benefit from the needs at both ends of the spectrum. I'd hate to see either abandoned. For a SOHO user, LEAF on an abandoned old machine is wonderful. Sure, you can buy firewalls, but, again, there is an advantage to having an uncommon configuration--look at Windows! Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
