The Future of Fedora.

[Robert Marcano]

On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 06:31, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 12:51:31AM +0200, Alexey Eremenko wrote:
> >                                                                               
> >    1) Passwords: Linux MUST have an ability to work without passwords for     
> >    those who desire it.                                                       
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> >       I want to work ALWAYS as a root. (like a do in Windows XP as            
> >    Administrator by default)                                                  
> 
> No way, no how.
> 
> Set up gpm and and pam to autologin as a user who has the ability to run
> certain tasks as root (yum, rpm and xcdroast being the only ones I would
> need but YMMV).
> 
> >       Believe me, there are other ways to be the same reliability and         
> >    security, without the annoying passwords.                                         
> 
> I've got to ask: how exactly?
> 
> >    2)Networks: FC1 Linux has no easy networking. I couldn't even check my IP  
> >    address, whithout the console command "ifconfig". It's very bad. It must   
> >    be as easy as in Windows XP.                                               
> 
> Agreed.
> I'm actually surprised that redhat-config-network doesn't show you the
> IP address a specific interface is using, even in its simplified mode.
> 
> >    Another problem I came across, is that there is no comfortable way to turn 
> >    Internet Connection Sharing on (IP Masquerade in Linux). In order to do    
> >    so, I had to read a ton of documentation about ipchains, iptables, ip      
> >    whatever, and still it doesn't work.                                       
> 
> Agreed.
> I simply install shorewall which allows you to set this up in a few minutes
> but the simplifying of redhat-config-firewall to the point where it's simply
> an on/off switch is a Bad Thing, IMHO.
> 
> >    3)Boot: FC1 boot times are significantly longer than in Windows XP,        
> >    however except few optimizations nothing could be done here. (or am I      
> >    wrong).                                                                    
> 
> Boot time is being worked on but a two minutes boot time is suspect.
> Have you activated any services to start on boot?
> Has the boot time always been this slow?

Maybe he is using an ISP that uses DHCP for configuration, so, you must
wait for each service to start one after another, there is no solution
yet for parallel services startup, but there are people working on that

> 
> Emmanuel
> 
-- 
Robert Marcano