Re: tlug: PPP for Dummies :-)

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> .. the alternative is to get TurboLinux and let it set it up for you.
> It's reasonably good at doing that, esp. if your ISP does PAP.
That is EXACTLY the problem. All the newbies nowadays get some
shrink wrapped distribution, throw it at their computer and
expect it to work (unfortunately usually the case). If any
problems arise they are stunned because they never learned the
ropes. That's why I went into considerable detail with the
theory of operation.

The present wave seems to me to make highly complex technical
systems accessible to the computer illiterates - it appears to
me like trying to make books and the written culture accessible
to illiterates - and on the long run it will work as little.
There was a good article in the last Linux Gazette addressing
this problem in a satirical way. 

> Unfortunately, TL and Redhat put the config files in different places than
> Slack/Deb do, so you can't just use TL's ppp config tool on a non-TL
> system (although it'd work with Redhat, since the binary is statically
> linked).
Believe me, I hack TL by hand, too. Find that a lot easier :-).
I don't like to be at the mercy of all that glitzy GUI stuff
very much.

                                 Karl-Max Wagner
                                 karlmax@example.com
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