Re: [Sheflug] BlueYonder

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> 
> I would gladly forfeit my right to "technical" support for the ability to
> use Linux without getting grief off an engineer with an MSCE and barely
> two brain cells to rub together.
> 

You miss the point - there are so many different ways a box could be 
configured and setup depending on version of kernel, version of networking 
utils, and state of firewall that asking an engineer to set up and test a 
connection gets rather complicated and tends to mean you need to know what 
you're doing.

You could set up your DHCP with the engineer watching, but then its a case of 
if it doesn't work, is it a problem with BY or your setup? If the engineer 
does the work, he can get things setup and tested himself, and then if it 
doesn't work, he has a data point as he knows what he's done to install it.

There seems to be an almost inflexible attitude at times within the Linux 
community in the "if it needs windows, I don't want to know [grumble moan cue 
flame wars]" type discussions. We're still living in a large Windows-at-home 
world...surely it's better to have a small Win95 partition or slow machine 
(eg, old 486 or summat) lying around for the times you need Windows?

But as I've said - BY *can* be used with Linux...you just need WinXX for the 
install. After the engineer's been and gone, you can do what you will with 
your machine. Though I've read in uk.telecom.broadband that you /might/ be 
able to sign the installation as complete (or similar) without the engineer 
doing owt to your box and leaving it for you to finish off.

Chris... 


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