[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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