[MLB-WIRELESS] Melbwireless Linux distro
Hamish Moffatt
hamish at cloud.net.au
Fri Jan 25 21:25:29 EST 2002
On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 11:44:25AM +1100, Jason Hecker wrote:
> I am thinking that it would be easy for people to develop for it if it were
> based on RH7.x distributions, seeing as it's most common.
Ugh. Why start with something inferior? Go with Debian.
> ideal. This would allow for tailoring of the package for wireless use so
> could include Zebra (RIP & OSPF), IPSec, CIPE (like IPSEC but simpler),
> PCMCIA support, wireless package support, firewalling, NAT , NoCAT auth
> etc. If it allowed simple modularity and configurability it'd give us a
> greater scope for experimentation with protocols and whatnot.
No chance you'd fit this lot on a floppy. However, I don't think that
is the end of the world. Small hard disks are so cheap these days
(for that matter, big hard disks are cheap too). A CD-based installer
should be fine.
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish at debian.org> <hamish at cloud.net.au>
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