[thomas: Re: [SLUG] wvdial Error Messages]

[Thom May <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I meant to CC this to the list, but i'm foolish, so didn't ;)
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Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 13:59:33 +0100
To: Jon Biddell <jon@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SLUG] wvdial Error Messages
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In-Reply-To: <00081521530205.00702@xena>; from jon@xxxxxxxxx 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)

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