Ubuntu easier for the 100% Ubuntu home network
Ubuntu is a user-friendly OS that many people would like to see as their main desktop throughout the house. As families become more wired, each member ends up with a PC and these get networked.
At the moment a couple of things are needed to enable this to be easy for John Q Public and his family:
1) Easy export and mounting with GUI of NFS shares. At the moment only SMB shares can be mounted. Mounting between two linux machines using SMB is plain crazy! We should be able to run the network on open services without having to resort to FUD-linked systems like SMB.
There is currently a blueprint out at https:/
2) Many home networks connect to the internet through a DSL modem. Unfortunately, this modem connection sometimes goes down.
SuSE have a really cooled applet called kinternet (under KDE, therefore) that can run on each PC and enables the user at that PC to see the status of the pppoe link and restart it, without going to the gateway PC. This applet is what makes my kids run their dual-boot machines under SuSE not Windows, and is why I run SUSE on my gateway, not Ubuntu. I don't know if kinternet and the SuSE Meta PPP daemon - SMPPPD runing on the gateway that it works with are proprietary SUSE that need licencing - they're not ported to anything else I can find - but for me this functionality is the number 1 show-stopper.
Cheers,
WotTheFrog
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