Re: tweaking the LiveCD

[Nils Philippsen <nphilipp redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 22:10 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:38:31PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Stupid CLI but useful
> > ---------------------
> [...]
> > bind-utils
> 
> Can we split this out to *just* contain "host"? :)
> 
> > Is dialup dead?
> > ---------------
> > ppp
> > rp-pppoe
> > wvdial
> 
> rp-pppoe is for ADSL, not dialup. But I think the widespread use of cheap gateway
> router boxes has made this less of an issue.

I guess it's a good thing to think of "dialup" as containing ADSL as
well (connecting to the Internet is what matters to users). For me, any
OS where I can't go online doesn't cut it. And yes, I have a WLAN router
box, but no I don't use it as such ;-).

Nils
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