Now that the new 2.4 is out,can SuSE tell us when it will be integrated in the new SuSE?

I'd like to point you to the press announcement, but I don't have an URL handy. But, considering that it's a few days already that this kernel is out, you should be able to guess reliably... :-)

The commercial SuSE is full of soft,but is it possible to do a little bit of clean-up?

This is the main reason why we made two distributions (a split): There is a personal and a professional SuSE, since most people really don't use everything an all of these CDs.

I agree with the people writing that we don't need 1000 packages of fe intrusionsoftware but that we want the soft that really works.

This is difficult. Read Thomas Biege's comment ono that on the list a few days ago: free IDS packages currently suck hamsters through straws.

Here are my suggestions.

Easy setup for cable and ASDL connection.

:-)

Easy setup for allowing the users to connect the internet.So not only root. I did not yet find out how to do this.

I vote against it (security implications). And it won't come. network setup is a superuser task. Ask the admin of the box that you wish to dial out with. Doing it as unprivileged user might not be that easy (you need ifconfig commands). It would require some of the tools to be suid root. And we definitely don't want that.

Soft for IDE-CDburners...

AFAIK there is no such software. Everybody uses the scsi emulation in the kernel to access IDE burners. And it works quite well.

integration in the softpackages of PMFirewall,portsentry and Licq.Would Bastille for SuSE be a bad idea?It's included in Red Hat only,but it seems to be good.

We'll add them in future releases. Good luck that the hassle with the format string parsing bugs has become quiet.

I wish the SuSE-team good luck...

This is *quite* a few people in the "team". Many thanks!

Jean-Paul Faessen

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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Faessen Jean-Paul wrote:

Now that the new 2.4 is out,can SuSE tell us when it will be integrated in the new SuSE?

The commercial SuSE is full of soft,but is it possible to do a little bit of clean-up?

I agree with the people writing that we don't need 1000 packages of fe intrusionsoftware but that we want the soft that really works.

There are a lot of packages out there that work. SuSE's way lets people pick their own flavour. There is nothing that forces you to install everything, but if you want it, it's there. And besides, what works for one person may be totally useless to another. I for one prefer it this way, where everything I want is there, as well as some stuff which I don't need and therefore don't install.

Here are my suggestions.

Easy setup for cable and ASDL connection.

And all the people with dial-up or network connections would be just thrilled to have their configs set-up for them as well.

Easy setup for allowing the users to connect the internet.So not only root. I did not yet find out how to do this.

Soft for IDE-CDburners...

Is included.

integration in the softpackages of PMFirewall,portsentry and Licq.Would Bastille for SuSE be a bad idea?It's included in Red Hat only,but it seems to be good.

Just as you would like these packages included, so others like the stuff that is included now. AFAIC all that SuSE should check is if the packages work. Users are perfectly capable of deciding on their use themselves. cheers Stefan