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Well, YOU obviously didn't know how to set up pppoe, so why would you expect someone else unfamiliar with your particular setup to know how to do it? Foresight is a brilliant up and coming distribution.

Maybe you should stop abusing the developer and do a little googling - Roaring Penguin is your friend: http://www.roaringpenguin.com/en/penguin/openSourceProducts/rpPppoe

More reading, less abusing.

gee, doesn't pppoe configuration work the same in any location ? username + password = internet access. those are the settings that pclinux and dreamlinux offer in their forum base....and they work very effeciently.

Edited 2007-02-05 00:06

Some providers like to screw with the system, like T-Com here in Germany. Instead of having just a password and a username they insist on giving you 4 numbers. They try to force you to use their software that way but you can also mash the numbers together in a rather unintuitive way to use pppoe like normal providers do.

As to the problem with resolution and pppoe there is documentation on the internet and on your computer. For the resolution try man xconfig and for pppoe try man adsl.

It uses Conary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conary_(package_manager)

Its a new type of package management system that can partially update packages (only files in the package that need updating instead of downloading the whole package with new version).

It is used by rPath that Foresight is based on. Read more about it here: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Conary:Overview

Wow, you download random distributions without knowing the first thing about them? Well, at least you're not afraid to try new things...

Conary is pretty sweet. It's both a package manager and a revision control systems. Perhaps the first "new-school" packaging system that actually tries to make the upstream developer's job easier.

Surely downloading random distributions is one of the best ways of learning things about them?

There's always time for checking documentation later if it uses something completely non-standard.

Yeah, sure, but I normally take a look at the web page first. You know, see how active the forums are and whatever.

Truth be told, I don't really try distributions anymore. I cured my distro-junkyism several years ago when I convinced myself of one seemingly fundamental truth: you rarely like a new distribution more than the one you're most comfortable with.

At first I bounced around a little, didn't really like Red Hat 6.2 or Mandrake 7.0 or Slackware or Debian Potato. I found Gentoo in early 2002 and have been using that predominantly ever since. I played around with Arch (even wrote an advanced installer for it), but it just wasn't big enough to keep up-to-date the way Gentoo does. I tried Ubuntu because it was so popular, and I still use it as my favorite LiveCD, but it isn't as comfortable for me day-to-day.

If some distribution becomes so big and everyone starts buzzing about it, then I'll give it a whirl. But I won't try little distributions unless their philosophy really resonates with me (like Gentoo and Arch did). Because otherwise I know I'll just end up being uncomfortable. And I just don't have the time anymore.

And that, sir, is the crux{,gentoo,ubuntu, slackware,redhat} of the issue!

Well done.

It turns out that flipping windows into the plane of the desktop isn't that hard; you can do it without any 3D acceleration at all. Good thing nobody told MS about that...

Pardon? Butters, you could always accomplish that - the problem was, it requires major CPU grunt; so the most logical thing is, why not use the GPU which sits like a spare prick at a wedding 1/2 the time, shunt the stuff off to it, and free up CPU time for more important things.

By and large, you're not flipping windows around often enough that it uses up any major portion of your CPU time. As long as it happens fast enough to be interactive, what does it matter?

And of course, don't forget that on laptops its usually a better idea to let the CPU do the work than to bring the GPU out of low-power mode to do it.

Sigh...

Another leggy blond supermodel...