I meant to CC this to the list, but i'm foolish, so didn't ;) ----- Forwarded message from thomas ----- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:59:33 +0100 To: Jon Biddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [SLUG] wvdial Error Messages User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <00081521530205.00702@xena>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:51:11PM +1000 hmmm. I think I ran Dead Rat for about a month before becoming thoroughly disgusted with it. Having to use it at work - it's my managers "prefered" distribution - prolly cos it comes in a box and has a silly GUI, but he's an NT fool, why does a DNS server need GNOME installed, ffs, but anyway - has merely reinforced my dislike. Never having used Suse, i can't comment, but I went straight from Slackware 3.5 to Debian, and while I have FreeBSD and Slackweare also installed at home, I haven't found anything that can touch a debian box for ease of use, stability, sane locations for files - /etc/rc.d/init.d - WHY????? *cough* etc... and the best damn packaging system on the face of the planet. FreeBSD's ports collection is pretty cool, but thats a different idea, and not, imo, as flexible as apt. In all honesty, installing debian is not an option i would call "biting the bullet"... just my 2p thom On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 09:51:11PM +1000, Jon Biddell wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Thom May wrote: > > Out of curiosity, are you on Debian boxen? > > Just wondering, because the standard deb ppp scripts (pon and > > poff) have logging through syslog, plus, with ppconfig a nicer > > front end and whatever than wvdial. And pon/poff supports demand > > dialing/autoredial/etc... > > just a query I guess... no big :-) > > thom > > No, I'm running SuSE 6.3 at the moment - upgrading to 7.0 when it's > released. > > I may look at DEB on the gateway box, and possibly RH or DEB on the > server - with so many distros it's hard to pick one, but one has to > bite the bullet sometime. > > -- Regards, > > Jon > > -------------------------------------------------- > "It is irresponsible to connect a Windows machine > to the Internet" ....... John Wiltshire (SLUG) -- Thomas May Sys Admin, AMX Communications (T) +44 (0)20 7440 3955 (F) +44 (0)20 7613 5333 (E) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) http://www.amxstudios.com ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Thomas May Sys Admin, AMX Communications (T) +44 (0)20 7440 3955 (F) +44 (0)20 7613 5333 (E) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (W) http://www.amxstudios.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug
