Recommendations for 0.5 familiar?

Here are some of my suggestions for the coming 0.5.
1) The dist should use shadow password scheme by default. Right now it
isn't. Should also include the tools to manage it. An alternative is to use
tinylogin (http://tinylogin.lineo.com). I tried it and seems fine.

2) Since multi-user capability has been built-in (or not taken out) in all
dist, shouldn't the XDM package be included as well so that users can login
to diff user profiles through a graphical login dialog box instead of going
through the serial console which is unconventional. If the projected usage
for the familiar on ipaq is only for single-user env, then isn't better to
boot the linux only to single-user mode (runlevel 1) instead?

3) I found that the bootloader has params for network booting (ip, nfsroot,
nfsserver address, etc). However, the code for doing that is not implemente
yet. The loader will default to boot from flash even if I specify "boot
nfsroot". It will be a good thing to have that so that we can use the iPAQ
as a thin client. However, probably that will blow up the bootloader since
we must include some or all of tcpip stack in it.

That's my opinion. Any comments?
Wong Yee Peng
Received on Tue Jul 24 2001 - 23:31:58 EDT