Ubuntu Advanced?

[Paul.McManus at met.police.uk]

There is absolutely no way I would have figured that out in under a week.
The Ubuntu Community is great, especially with questions such as this, but for the average user (with limited technical knowledge or understanding) a GUI for these sorts of things would be a better solution.

That said, my family use Ubuntu with hardly any fuss, and have done for a couple of years.
Maybe it's the fact they conincidently use well supported Dell laptops, but Ubuntu Just Works(tm) for them.

-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-devel-discuss-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On Behalf Of Dave
Walker
Sent: 28 August 2009 18:19
To: Dane Mutters
Cc: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com; Jan-Michael Heller
Subject: Re: Ubuntu Advanced?


Dane Mutters wrote:
<SNIP>
> Just an example that I was arguing with yesterday: /etc/resolv.conf.
> It's auto-generated by NetworkManager.  I like NM; don't get me wrong,
> but if you need to change the DNS (or other) settings from the command
> prompt, it's really a pain.
>
> --Dane

Hi Dane,

Whilst i appreciate that is just an example, that particular issue can
be overcome with, appending:
"prepend domain-name-servers $SOME_DNS_SERVER,$DNS_SERVER_2;"
to: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

Then you have two DNS servers,at the top of /etc/resolv.conf

Kind Regards,
Dave Walker

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