I even suspect that it would be more fitting for a few SOHO users here, who only need simple masquerading with basic proxys ... and dialup/ADSL support of course [:)]
I agree they should be nicer to people that use their distribution but I wouldn't call them "customers" since the project is completely GPL.
For more informations look at the GPL license, in which is stated when you get the software you get the source code, the right to modify and redistribute it but NO implied explicit warrainties (which in turn you expect when actually BUYING something).
Anyway I tried that distro and I must admit they have done a really good job: the WHOLE distribution is about 20 Mb and I was able to run it without any problem in a P166 with 32Mb of ram and 1 Gb of HD. The web interface was really fast even with this poor hardware, the adsl PPPoe worked in minutes.
Of course I like much more my ASL box with the 2.4 kernel and all its neat stuff [;)]ood product.
I agree they should be nicer to people that use their distribution but I wouldn't call them "customers" since the project is completely GPL.
For more informations look at the GPL license, in which is stated when you get the software you get the source code, the right to modify and redistribute it but NO implied explicit warrainties (which in turn you expect when actually BUYING something).
Anyway I tried that distro and I must admit they have done a really good job: the WHOLE distribution is about 20 Mb and I was able to run it without any problem in a P166 with 32Mb of ram and 1 Gb of HD. The web interface was really fast even with this poor hardware, the adsl PPPoe worked in minutes.
Of course I like much more my ASL box with the 2.4 kernel and all its neat stuff [;)]ood product.
I even suspect that it would be more fitting for a few SOHO users here, who only need simple masquerading with basic proxys ... and dialup/ADSL support of course [:)]
agreed, save yourself alot of headaches and trash the usb, thats adding a reasonable amount of processer overhead, I'm also not incredible impressed with usb_core as is, but thats another story
Tom, funny thing to see that irc extract. I was on their lists for quite a while and volunteered both time and hardware to their project without being taken up on it.
Mr. Morrell is the closest to a narrow-minded tyrant I've seen on the net for the last few years, but Smoothwall is in many aspects a good product for many home users.
I hate to see what he is doing to users though ... :-(
