Installing a compiler by default

[Anders Karlsson]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:28 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:15 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 08, 2006 at 01:26:20PM -0400, Lee Revell said:
> > > 
> > > How common is it really for Joe User to have to compile a kernel module
> > > to get his hardware to work?
> > 
> > Probably not very, with Ubuntu.  More common is to compile a kernel
> > module to get his corporate VPN to work.  However, anybody capable of
> > pulling that off can also download a compiler, so I agree with the
> > stance that we don't need it by default.
> > 
> 
> Actually I use PPTP to connect to a Microsoft VPN, it works OOTB (the
> kernel side anyway - userspace tools have a ways to go).
> 
> I guess you're referring to Cisco VPN client?

Even that will work OOTB if you use the vpnc package. All you need is
the tun driver, and that is standard in Ubuntu kernels, all else is done
in userspace.

-- 
Anders Karlsson <trudheim at gmail.com>
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