Aaron wrote: > On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Tom Georgoulias wrote: >>Weird, mine works fine with just ifup/ifdown.. > So, maybe some people changed their PATH in their non-root accounts to > coincidentally include /sbin? Or not? Or what? Since user aren't supposed to use ifup and ifdown... Use /usr/sbin/usernetctl instead. Not sure about the modem-lights applett, I use the lights on my modem instead :) I use demand dialing, so I'm not constantly starting/stopping the ppp interface and don't need a gui for that. Then again, I mostly work with a shell, one of the things I dislike about M$ is no shell. > I can't run KDE reliably. This on an OOB custom install, not an > upgrade, where all I did was select packages. This is on a 450 MHz > Intel, 384 MB, 8G machine-that-ran-7.3-just-peachy-thankyouverymuch. > During the install there were no dependency problems flagged. I use GNOME, and mozilla for mail. No problem on a K6-III 400. > to be much more configurable (and I'm not talking background colors). > There's that gconf thing, but I feel really great when I see a warning > that it might bugger my machine. gconf makes edits to ~/.gconf for users. So you can always 1) backup the directory before making changes or 2) rm -Rf ~/.gconf to restore the defaults. > And speaking of not actually using things, has anyone noticed that > Evolution, and either Kmail or Balsa (forget which now) hate it when you > leave them running after you take ppp down? I'm accustomed to leaving > my mail client up no matter what, to access old messages. Works fine in mozilla. I just reach over an turn off the modem. When I want back online, I turn it on. pppd redials for me. > Yes, it's pretty, and the install is a bit nicer and easier, especially > package selection, but this really is a .0 product. Which surprises me, It's better than previous .0 releases. I think it's better than man .1 releases too. -Thomas
