Lessons from XP

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 04:23 -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 3) You can boot directly into a certain profile from grub
> 
> While this is very nice, I do believe that the consensus was that GRUB
> should not be shown; I don't think there is any right answer to
> selecting network profiles, as popping up a dialog box at boot (a la
> laptop-net) isn't that great either.

A good bit of this should be able to be autodetected.  For instance, you
can often ping the gateway, proxy, etc.  I suspect that a large number
of cases could be autodected (ie. try on each profile for 'fit').  With
a default profile to fall back to, it should "just work".  The logic
would take some good programing.  I'm very curious to see the new
NetworkManager from RedHat.  thom: are we going to see package of that
for hoary early on?

Nathaniel