Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-04-15 at 20:27 +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:
Sure, multicast dns - or zeroconf in general - isn't something that makes things work. It's something that makes things work without configuration. The whole idea of zeroconf is that "normal people" can just plug in their machines, and have more or less everything work, including networking, automatic discovery of file shares etc.
Exactly. But I don't think I need that....
Perhaps not, but Linux and openSUSE are not supposed to be just for the technically proficient. And it is very useful, when it works, even if I could do it all by hand. Network Manager is a good example of this, I think. It is now painless for me to switch between a secured wireless network at home, wired at home, an unsecured and hidden wireless at work, and the work wired network, with just a couple of mouse clicks when I move either my machine or my choice of network. I could, and have, done all of this using ifup, hand edits of conf files, etc., but I wouldn't be switching that much if I had to do it every time. And my fourteen year old son would have needed a lot more training to change settings from home to a public wireless and back, compared to teaching him how to use NM. (He is my personal model of a technically teachable user, who doesn't understand al the theory but can follow instructions.) And for my wife, who has trouble with public networks on Windows, although she is quite smart, she would be lost on a Linux desktop without any automatic config tools. I think they need to be in a modern Linux distro, its just that they have to be pretty bug free (only narrow HW issues, etc.) to be ready for prime time. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org