From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 30 09:01:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29362 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:01:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hobbes.crc.com (hobbes.crc.com [192.251.235.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA29343 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 09:01:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com) Received: from yeti.hqs.crc.com(really [192.146.211.204]) by hobbes.crc.com via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:01:26 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built 1997-Mar-21) Received: from moses.hqs.crc.com (moses.hqs.crc.com [192.146.211.111]) by yeti.hqs.crc.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07996; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:02:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from dpb@yeti.hqs.crc.com) Message-ID: <004701bd7451$3c025240$6fd392c0@moses.hqs.crc.com> From: "Dan Benjamin" To: , "Frank Pawlak" Cc: Subject: Re: Andreessen: Linux use growing Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 12:01:27 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Don Wilde > We have a shot at the server market, but unless we add to our appeal to >the desktop set by improving ppp and printer setup and building our own >office suite, we will remain a niche OS. That's why I take Jordan's Are we talking about developing an interface (gui or otherwise) to the existing user-ppp or pppd tools, or something entirely new? RedHat has a semi-intuitive ppp setup GUI which works for most setups using CHAP and PAP checkboxes for options, etc. An example of a very elegant and intuitive ppp setup we could work towards is the BeOS. A dialog box asks for the username, password, and telephone number. It determines server type, PAP or CHAP, etc.- but this would require some real work. -Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message