Alternatives that don´t suck?

[Leon Goldstein]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:28:40PM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
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>>Well, Lonni is right in one respect about the zealots in Debian land.
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>>The following url represents a fair and reasonable evaluation of the
>>beta version of Lenny (the next Debian stable), but read the responses
>>from the gnu-nazis who can't handle the discussion of various non-dfsg
>>packages. Bah, humbug.
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>>http://www.deviceguru.com/2008/08/14/testing-debians-lenny-kde-beta/
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>Typical.
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>I guess what I'd say is that all the alternatives suck. They just suck
>in different ways or, at best, suck less in one way than in another.
>You pick your poison and deal with the suckage of choice.
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>Kurt
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I've always wondered why the high priests of Debian don't think mere 
mortals should ever connect to the internet with dialup; this privilege 
apparently is reserved for root.  Those of us who used Corel Linux 
remember the hoop-leaping exercise.

Libranet just abandoned the Debian dogma and came up with a nice dialup 
configurator and substitute for kppp.

The reviewer of "Lenny" included some appreciated notes on hacking kppp 
so it works for user.  I'll give the procedure a go, and maybe I'll be 
able to get my Debian 4.0 to dialup as a user, eventually.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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