[glug-t] Re: Custom distro..

dial up in linux.. me too had a really bad time... but finally found
out that only in some places we really do have ipsp's support for
linux for dial up.. and linux (dunno why) has trouble detecting
internal modem..
so got an external modem for that and tried wvdial after a few
hacks... and finally my modem connects to net.. but i cannot view any
site or even ping google..

but i guess that may not be considered as a big problem.. bsnl
broadband is expanding and by 2007 v shall have broadband everywhere..
and infact some of the services r cheaper than actually the dial up
and obviously faster..
so i guess this v may neglact considering how much more things v have
got to do...

P.S just my point of view.. and no offence nitin...

On 12/15/06, Nitin Isloorkar <nvisloorkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are two major problems in Linux for which I still need to use M$:
> 1. Redhat, for some reason does not bundle modem drivers with the distro nor
> could I find any on the net. I just couldn't connect to the net in Linux
> using dial-up, which you will agree is a very severe setback
>
> 2. Please make sure the games can be run in multiplayer mode also, otherwise
> it won't be of much use. In CS, I have been able to host servers and play
> multiplayer, but I cannot see other servers. Similarly, I can chat but can't
> see others' chat! The link is sort of one way. Even apart from that, there
> is a lot of tweaking to be done if the games are to be run as well as they
> do in M$.
>
> I would be better if we were to address these issues in our distro.
>
> P.S: I don't like this freelist thingy... let's find a forum.
>
> On 12/15/06, Sahil Ahuja <sahilahuja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > About our custom distro thing, these are just a few thoughts about how
> > to add and what to add to our custom distro.. (btw, we also need a
> > name for this distro)
> >
> > This discussion is a bit Fedora specific...
> >
> > The two important things we need is multimedia and games.
> > First multimedia :
> > This can easily be achieved by bundling the rpms that we get with
> > fedora extras with our distro and making them selected by default.
> > This can be done by editing the comps.xml file, the same way we have
> > done for yum in Garnet-Zircon lan. Btw even during FC6 installation
> > yum is used the back end so the technique should be same.
> >
> > Then games :
> > The two practical games in the spotlight are counter-strike and quake3
> > Counter Strike : We need to include the wine rpms by default for this.
> > Then all we have to do is run a simple cp command after the
> > installation at the firstboot configuration time. Or we could have a
> > custom script that does that and we can ask the user to execute that
> > after the installation.
> >
> > Quake 3 : We need to install graphic drivers for this if the user has
> > a graphic card. The problem with graphic drivers is that we don't know
> > which graphic card he has.
> > What we could do is dmesg | grep nvidia (or ati) and we get a result
> > (that means the user has a nvidia or ati graphic card) we can proceed
> > to install the rpms needed for nvidia drivers (all this in the
> > firstboot of course). The problem with this is not all nvidia cards
> > are supported by the latest nvidia drivers. Some cards are in nvidia
> > legacy. So we will need to test what cards are in legacy and what are
> > not and then proceed to install the drivers.
> > After that the normal method : cp the game files and run a quake3.rpm
> >
> > Continue this thread for further discussion....
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