I agree. WindRiver's VxWorks is a true example of some software not carrying the price of its true value, but the value that customers are prepared to pay for it (ie. tens or hundreds of thousands of US$).
The only thing VxWorks has of technical value (IMHO) is its pretty slick development environment, but not the actual OS.
For the OS I'd prefer to use eCos instead of VxWorks, but for larger systems, eg. devices that'l carry more CPU+RAM power than a vacuum cleaner, I'd myself choose Linux anytime. Especially since the Linux 2.5 kernel series, which is much better suited for embedded devices than previous Linux kernels, even though even earlier ones weren't non-usable, however.. well if you know you know what I mean:-)
One last comment: In embedded devices Motorola HW Rulez, only displaying a fans disposition and not one of an employee's, which I am not.
In order to make sure we compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, I suppose it would be fair to ask the question of when the Konqueror fix will be available to the normal and possibly rather non-sophisticated public consumer crowd?
I mean, when the fix becomes ready from MS (weeks or months, but it will) it will be applicable to most users of Windows, but the current fix for Konqueror after 90min weren't immediatly ready for the masses.
You are so totally wrong when you say: "the only penalty that could really hurt MS was taken off the table." with regard to break MS up. This discussion is now a deadbeaten horse and I fail to understand why you haven't understood it?!
The best way in my opinion to:
1.Penalize MS for past deeds is fine them big time, like most, eg. 75%, of their cash holdings because that is what they extracted out of people through their illegal monopoly.
2.Ensure that their manners in the future won't harm consumers and ensure fair competition, by forcing them to specify any and all external fileformats and protocols to servers and aaplications.
Many others have voiced support of such kinds of measures and I really believe that they would be fair and enforcable. Not 'good' for MS, but hey they were found guilty:-)
My own addition to #2 is that I think it should apply to any software producer and the onus on it being uphold should be on the producer. That could either be by Open Source'ing it or producing enough test software that showed it was true.
The reason I believe external file formats and protocols ougth to be openly specified is that if I have used an application like eg. MS Word to produce a file, that file is mine and if I can't have control over its contents it is wrong, IMHO.
I agree with you in spirit, but I would like to correct you on history. The first formal Football rules were written down in 1863, FIFA was founded in 1904 and the first WC was held in 1930 so even though it may seem it has existed for ages it is at least younger than the USA (1776 was it?;-)
Probably the most artistic and graceful team sport there is, that actually is closer to war without weapons.
I can't say much about your comparisons, but I'd like to give my opinion regarding:
>Just think what would happen if IE came out for Linux. Mozilla/Netscape would be killed.
For one, I would still be using mozilla simply because it is open source. I don't like installing *any* software package unless it is source code and I compile the binary myself.
Probably most aren't like this, but I'd be surprised if not enough would feel like that and therefore we'd still have a market.
It might even be so that companies like eg. IBM and SUN (and perhaps later AOL) would also prefer that and then we would really have a large market. Continuing that trend, we might eventually start seeing various countries that would also prefer open source software.
So, even if IE was ported to Linux it might not actually 'kill' Mozilla/Netscape unless it was also open sourced:-)
However, Judge Jackson's finding of facts did find MS to be a monopoly.
And until I can easily go to a mainstore or main producer of desktops and order a non-Windows based computer at a fair price, ie. without the MS tax, then I'd say myself that MS has a monopoly.
With the government 'shining on IBM' for so long the cutomerbase got worried and gave competition a chance, but who was the IBM customerbase and who is the MS customerbase?
IBM customers then were professionals whereas most MS customers aren't, ergo they won't understand the difference as long as what they get seems to work.
Second:
Microsoft grew in the shadows of IBM because of a paradigm shift in the computing industry, ie. from bigger and expensive to smaller and less expensive, as it had actually grown for a while, hence the popularity of DEC PDPs and VAXs over mainframes.
Now we can't go lower and the netcomputer hasn't taken off and doesn't seem to.
Ergo, competition could only catch up to MS if MS took it easy for a while while the case[s] are ongoing. Does it look like they are doing that?
Didn't think so.
Ergo, the only paradigmshift we can hope for is for OSS to really become strong in the Joe Sixpack market, ie. not just strong serversales, and I am not seeing that happening just yet.
Why not UTC instead of antiquated GMT?
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As the first line states:
"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."
and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?:-)
Let me just plug a little for Inmarsat, which I don't work for, however I do work for a company that make products for their satellite system.
The present high speed is 64kbit and an ISDN line may be one way to transfer data.
It may not seem to be a lot, but it works, it works well and it works now and at affordable prices.
Otherwise there probably wouldn't have been sold 100.000'ands of terminals (including A, B, C and M systems) all over the world.
Other services may promise higher speeds in the future, but Inmarsat and related companies of course aren't standing still, so also there higher speeds will appear in the future.
In any case I hope a race/competition for higher quality of service, eg. higher speeds, will evolve because that will be great for end users as well as producers (not all producers understand it, though:-)
"Our country is at war now, even if it is undeclared one"
I would say that there have been quite clear declarations of war, if not formal ones as descibed in the Vienna Convention.
And by Chapter 5 in the Washington Treaty all NATO members are equally at war.
Fortunately the US seems to have learned [the hard way] not to fuck up and in any case they have good support from more experienced countries, eg. UK, so it shouldn't become a new Vietnam.
Hopefully we will see the beginnning of preparations for elections or some other things that show the Afghanistans are moving towards controlling the country for the people by the people.
I tried it a couple of times, but all the time I got pages back either explaining 'the server is busy' or some such, and I did make sure to first clean out the spaces you mentioned. I didn't pay much attention to the text, but I then gave up trying, as it isn't actually *really* my problem:-)
I only got around 110 CR2 attempts on my own server since this morning so it doesn't choke it at all or deny me any service that I have.
Most IPs must be temporary [dialup?] connections anyway, because most of them don't connect at all (ping, regular telnet 80) and it is then amazing that those people run vulnerable webservers and get attacked in the [short?] window of time they are connected.
Re:A few more details:It's a root trojan
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OK, I tried this on a couple of the hosts that I have in my access logfile, but after a few successful attempts it got boring.
I wonder what I can do after getting the prompt? After I get:
c:\inetpub\scripts>
I don't know what to do, but I would like to send an email to the webmaster telling him to stop letting his server sending me crap, however I have tried 'dir' and 'cd' which I thoiught were simple commands, but the link then seems to be stuck, ie. nothing happens.
If anyone has info about what can be done there I'd like to hear.
An email from his own machine by someone else ought to scare him to DO something about it!
Your site on 24.10.128.108 times out so I wonder if I don't really have to crack it (please distinguish between 'hack' and 'crack') because someone already did?:-)
And please note that just because an OS doesn't crash that doesn't validate it as being 'good' because there is more to an OS being good eg. the programming API.
Well you also disn't choose some very good distributions for those machines. If you had chosen Slackware I'm quite sure you would have been much better off. And if the newer ones with glibc2 were too heavy you could have chosen an older one. I have Slackware 3.0 with linux 2.0.27 running on a 386SX/20 with 4MB of RAM. Now it only does text, but I have tested with more RAM (20MB) and then it is able to do X11 (a while ago so I don't remember the version of XFree).
You could also have chosen to attempt an install with eg. FreeBSD as they are more lightweight than the bloated Linux distributions you often see today (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE that I know of).
Except for the ease of install and use, this is one of the main reasons I still prefer Slackware:-)
I find racist, sexist, etc. jokes especially funny and PC people like you sooooo boring. And if you reply to this one don't expect anything more from me, you will have the last word:-)
I have myself worked for a big faceless corporation and I am an engineer, and any engineer that isn't able to distance himself a little from whatever brainchild he is working on _should_ get a life because he apparently doesn't have one. I would be surprised if any of the engineers actually having worked on this chip gives a shit about what you or I think. Perhaps a few blokes in marketing because it makes their job more difficult that a product shows some pretty shitty benchmarks for now, but don't worry they are paid to do that job.
Except for points here on slapdash, what do you get out of defending these faceless people in this big faceless corporationn anyway, as you apparently aren't working on this particular piece of silicon? Are you just bored at work, if you have work?
Well, when living in Denmark Telia isn't [yet at least] the devil itself, because that position is taken by Tele Danmark that used to be state owned, but now is owned by some American corp.
Therefore Telia is actually helping provide some competition in an otherwise competition starved country and as the purchaser of the S/390 system is actually Telia DK I am clapping in my little hands:-)
Countries that are spending the
money to give young children access to bandwidth -- many of the Scandinavian countries are doing this
-- are seeding economic, educational and creative success, equality and prosperity.
It is funny to read this because it sounds like the Scandinavian countries are free and forward looking. It therefore ougth to be mentioned that just yesterday the Danish Minister of Justice, Frank Jensen, proposed a new law that will enable non-police officers the right to enter people's homes on the suspicion that they have illegal software and/or music in their homes.
Normally I just find too many ignorant and dump politicians in Denmark (the number of stupid laws may even superseed the US;-) but this one stinks of bribery from software companies (I won't mention anyone in particular...) or of a very scary level of misunderstanding of the rights of people in a [normally] free country and that from the Minister of Justice!
So we may have free sex (as in speech, not beer) but it may develop into a mayhem of missing liberal rights.
Well, it was one of the first distributions and generally thought of as the forerunner to Slackware (also one of the first). I have a CDROM with this Soft Landing Systems v1.2 from January 1994 (I believe it was) and it was from the times when one CDROM was plenty of space for a whole distribution:-)
These have probably all pretty much been stated by others somewhere in the humongous list of comments, but I will list them in order to emphasize that I find them important and so that moderators can see it and moderate accordingly:
1.Please don't change the bootup sequence from BSD to SysV. This is one strong reason I like Slackware.
2.Please keep the A and N disk sets installable on floppies because Slackware install is still one of the most flexible and versatile distributions that I know of. Especially when you are in a pinch with some broken pieces of hardware, eg. CDROM and need a truly safe type of install. It also makes rescue disks a possibility, which I hope will continue as well.
3.Please make Slackware also for Digital Alpha. I am now forced to use RedHat (I gave up on SuSE and haven't yet tried Debian), but would change to Slackware in a heartbeat if it existed. And my machine is a UDB/Multia so if the choice will be limited please include that one:-)
4.I don't understand the people complaining about Slackware not having a package manager? Have they never tried pkgtool? In any case I hope you will continue using tar and gz (and/or bz2?) because they are generic and *open* tools and lets me the *user* deal with the installation as I want and not some arbitrary tool (cough*rpm*cough*cough) like in the MS/Mac world.
5.The setup/installation tool could be made so that when you get to the configure part you would have a menu to select what to configure instead of having to wade through it all every time. Only netconfig is mentioned as being possible to start up on a later time, but including xf86config and some sound config tool and let us choose from a menu would be great.
6.What I would like to be able to configure is:
A.LILO (already there) B.Keyboard (already there) C.Mouse (type, port, speed) D.Serial (speed, uart, port, irq, etc.) E.Parallel (normal, advanced, etc.) F.CDROM (what device it is on) G.Swap (I don't want every swap partition) H.Better selection of partitions for install I.Videocard for SVGAlib and XFree86 J.Soundcard (something that works, not sndconfig) K.USB ports L.Firewire ports M.ISDN N.PPP setup, eg. with ISP provided DNS host O.Cablemodem setup P.ADSL setup Q.DHCP setup R.Apache setup S.DNS setup (apart from N.) T.Better printer setup eg. with GS config
There is probably more if I start thinking about it:-)
7.Don't *ever* make it a graphical install!!! I don't know how to emphasize this enough, but let the wimps choose another distribution if they want potential trouble already in the beginning.
This is all I can think of now, but all in all I want it to stay simple, versatile and flexible so I can attempt to throw it at almost any hardware I have that I want Linux on. What I miss most is help with setup and configuration of more things. Keep up the good work!
My favorite game on computers, at least since I learned about it, is CROBOTS. As far as I know, no other version than the fairly simple (user POV) DOS based version ever came out, and that is a pitty.
I would love to see a more advanced version of it, eg. including several views (outside, inside) and with the possibility of repairing your tank after having been hit. Of course a wider selection of weapons, perhaps other kinds of vehicles (fast-moving cars with limited weapons/armour, aircraft, etc.) and what have you. Make it sophisticated enough that no one is able to create a robot that no one else can win against, which happened in CROBOTS and apparently killed the interest for the game.
As a programmer using only Linux at home that would be the ultimate game, ie. I would finally install a game on my computers.
If you know of the existance of such a game already I would love to hear about it.
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Linus being desginated a "Linux advocate" is interesting in and of itself.
He is still after more than a decade the head-honcho of Linux development for chrissake!
I agree. WindRiver's VxWorks is a true example of some software not carrying the price of its true value, but the value that customers are prepared to pay for it (ie. tens or hundreds of thousands of US$).
.. well if you know you know what I mean :-)
The only thing VxWorks has of technical value (IMHO) is its pretty slick development environment, but not the actual OS.
For the OS I'd prefer to use eCos instead of VxWorks, but for larger systems, eg. devices that'l carry more CPU+RAM power than a vacuum cleaner, I'd myself choose Linux anytime. Especially since the Linux 2.5 kernel series, which is much better suited for embedded devices than previous Linux kernels, even though even earlier ones weren't non-usable, however
One last comment: In embedded devices Motorola HW Rulez, only displaying a fans disposition and not one of an employee's, which I am not.
In order to make sure we compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges, I suppose it would be fair to ask the question of when the Konqueror fix will be available to the normal and possibly rather non-sophisticated public consumer crowd?
I mean, when the fix becomes ready from MS (weeks or months, but it will) it will be applicable to most users of Windows, but the current fix for Konqueror after 90min weren't immediatly ready for the masses.
So, when will it?
You are so totally wrong when you say: "the only penalty that could really hurt MS was taken off the table." with regard to break MS up. This discussion is now a deadbeaten horse and I fail to understand why you haven't understood it?!
:-)
The best way in my opinion to:
1.Penalize MS for past deeds is fine them big time, like most, eg. 75%, of their cash holdings because that is what they extracted out of people through their illegal monopoly.
2.Ensure that their manners in the future won't harm consumers and ensure fair competition, by forcing them to specify any and all external fileformats and protocols to servers and aaplications.
Many others have voiced support of such kinds of measures and I really believe that they would be fair and enforcable. Not 'good' for MS, but hey they were found guilty
My own addition to #2 is that I think it should apply to any software producer and the onus on it being uphold should be on the producer. That could either be by Open Source'ing it or producing enough test software that showed it was true.
The reason I believe external file formats and protocols ougth to be openly specified is that if I have used an application like eg. MS Word to produce a file, that file is mine and if I can't have control over its contents it is wrong, IMHO.
I agree with you in spirit, but I would like to correct you on history. The first formal Football rules were written down in 1863, FIFA was founded in 1904 and the first WC was held in 1930 so even though it may seem it has existed for ages it is at least younger than the USA (1776 was it? ;-)
Probably the most artistic and graceful team sport there is, that actually is closer to war without weapons.
I can't say much about your comparisons, but I'd like to give my opinion regarding:
:-)
>Just think what would happen if IE came out for Linux. Mozilla/Netscape would be killed.
For one, I would still be using mozilla simply because it is open source. I don't like installing *any* software package unless it is source code and I compile the binary myself.
Probably most aren't like this, but I'd be surprised if not enough would feel like that and therefore we'd still have a market.
It might even be so that companies like eg. IBM and SUN (and perhaps later AOL) would also prefer that and then we would really have a large market. Continuing that trend, we might eventually start seeing various countries that would also prefer open source software.
So, even if IE was ported to Linux it might not actually 'kill' Mozilla/Netscape unless it was also open sourced
Actually, if for nothing else exactly your reply made it have a point.
:-)
Thanks a lot!
>... and dozens of other systems that went obsolete because they had no games.
So how many years will that give Linux?
Just wondering after such a deep analyzis.
However, Judge Jackson's finding of facts did find MS to be a monopoly.
And until I can easily go to a mainstore or main producer of desktops and order a non-Windows based computer at a fair price, ie. without the MS tax, then I'd say myself that MS has a monopoly.
Please explain to me why I am wrong?
You are comparing appleas and oranges here.
For one:
With the government 'shining on IBM' for so long the cutomerbase got worried and gave competition a chance, but who was the IBM customerbase and who is the MS customerbase?
IBM customers then were professionals whereas most MS customers aren't, ergo they won't understand the difference as long as what they get seems to work.
Second:
Microsoft grew in the shadows of IBM because of a paradigm shift in the computing industry, ie. from bigger and expensive to smaller and less expensive, as it had actually grown for a while, hence the popularity of DEC PDPs and VAXs over mainframes.
Now we can't go lower and the netcomputer hasn't taken off and doesn't seem to.
Ergo, competition could only catch up to MS if MS took it easy for a while while the case[s] are ongoing. Does it look like they are doing that?
Didn't think so.
Ergo, the only paradigmshift we can hope for is for OSS to really become strong in the Joe Sixpack market, ie. not just strong serversales, and I am not seeing that happening just yet.
As the first line states:
:-)
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"As you might know, Slashdot runs on Greenwich Mean Time."
and I have noticed it for a long time, I will now take the opportunity to ask if Slashdot editors wouldn't please enter the new age and use updated acronyms?
A good explanation can be found here:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9
Even MS has the following [slightly related] page from 1997 (and we wouldn't wanna be defetaed by MS, would we
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=
Ergo, skip the GMT and start using UTC.
Oh, and I hope all will have a Happy New Year!
Let me just plug a little for Inmarsat, which I don't work for, however I do work for a company that make products for their satellite system.
:-)
The present high speed is 64kbit and an ISDN line may be one way to transfer data.
It may not seem to be a lot, but it works, it works well and it works now and at affordable prices.
Otherwise there probably wouldn't have been sold 100.000'ands of terminals (including A, B, C and M systems) all over the world.
Other services may promise higher speeds in the future, but Inmarsat and related companies of course aren't standing still, so also there higher speeds will appear in the future.
In any case I hope a race/competition for higher quality of service, eg. higher speeds, will evolve because that will be great for end users as well as producers (not all producers understand it, though
"Our country is at war now, even if it is undeclared one"
I would say that there have been quite clear declarations of war, if not formal ones as descibed in the Vienna Convention.
And by Chapter 5 in the Washington Treaty all NATO members are equally at war.
Fortunately the US seems to have learned [the hard way] not to fuck up and in any case they have good support from more experienced countries, eg. UK, so it shouldn't become a new Vietnam.
Hopefully we will see the beginnning of preparations for elections or some other things that show the Afghanistans are moving towards controlling the country for the people by the people.
Thanks a lot for your suggestion!
:-)
I tried it a couple of times, but all the time I got pages back either explaining 'the server is busy' or some such, and I did make sure to first clean out the spaces you mentioned. I didn't pay much attention to the text, but I then gave up trying, as it isn't actually *really* my problem
I only got around 110 CR2 attempts on my own server since this morning so it doesn't choke it at all or deny me any service that I have.
Most IPs must be temporary [dialup?] connections anyway, because most of them don't connect at all (ping, regular telnet 80) and it is then amazing that those people run vulnerable webservers and get attacked in the [short?] window of time they are connected.
OK, I tried this on a couple of the hosts that I have in my access logfile, but after a few successful attempts it got boring.
I wonder what I can do after getting the prompt? After I get:
c:\inetpub\scripts>
I don't know what to do, but I would like to send an email to the webmaster telling him to stop letting his server sending me crap, however I have tried 'dir' and 'cd' which I thoiught were simple commands, but the link then seems to be stuck, ie. nothing happens.
If anyone has info about what can be done there I'd like to hear.
An email from his own machine by someone else ought to scare him to DO something about it!
Your site on 24.10.128.108 times out so I wonder if I don't really have to crack it (please distinguish between 'hack' and 'crack') because someone already did? :-)
And please note that just because an OS doesn't crash that doesn't validate it as being 'good' because there is more to an OS being good eg. the programming API.
Well you also disn't choose some very good distributions for those machines. If you had chosen Slackware I'm quite sure you would have been much better off. And if the newer ones with glibc2 were too heavy you could have chosen an older one. I have Slackware 3.0 with linux 2.0.27 running on a 386SX/20 with 4MB of RAM. Now it only does text, but I have tested with more RAM (20MB) and then it is able to do X11 (a while ago so I don't remember the version of XFree).
:-)
You could also have chosen to attempt an install with eg. FreeBSD as they are more lightweight than the bloated Linux distributions you often see today (Mandrake, RedHat, SuSE that I know of).
Except for the ease of install and use, this is one of the main reasons I still prefer Slackware
I find racist, sexist, etc. jokes especially funny and PC people like you sooooo boring. And if you reply to this one don't expect anything more from me, you will have the last word :-)
I have myself worked for a big faceless corporation and I am an engineer, and any engineer that isn't able to distance himself a little from whatever brainchild he is working on _should_ get a life because he apparently doesn't have one. I would be surprised if any of the engineers actually having worked on this chip gives a shit about what you or I think. Perhaps a few blokes in marketing because it makes their job more difficult that a product shows some pretty shitty benchmarks for now, but don't worry they are paid to do that job.
Except for points here on slapdash, what do you get out of defending these faceless people in this big faceless corporationn anyway, as you apparently aren't working on this particular piece of silicon? Are you just bored at work, if you have work?
Were you part of the team developing Merced/Itanium?
:-)
If you weren't you should get a life and take the joke as just that. Perhaps even more so if you did in fact deal with developing it.
And if you haven't noticed lately, Intel is an excellent target for even cheap jokes, and I enjoyed this one
Well, when living in Denmark Telia isn't [yet at least] the devil itself, because that position is taken by Tele Danmark that used to be state owned, but now is owned by some American corp.
:-)
Therefore Telia is actually helping provide some competition in an otherwise competition starved country and as the purchaser of the S/390 system is actually Telia DK I am clapping in my little hands
It is funny to read this because it sounds like the Scandinavian countries are free and forward looking. It therefore ougth to be mentioned that just yesterday the Danish Minister of Justice, Frank Jensen, proposed a new law that will enable non-police officers the right to enter people's homes on the suspicion that they have illegal software and/or music in their homes.
Normally I just find too many ignorant and dump politicians in Denmark (the number of stupid laws may even superseed the US ;-) but this one stinks of bribery from software companies (I won't mention anyone in particular ...) or of a very scary level of misunderstanding of the rights of people in a [normally] free country and that from the Minister of Justice!
So we may have free sex (as in speech, not beer) but it may develop into a mayhem of missing liberal rights.
And if Arnold Schwarzenegger starts wearing it, could it then be considered StrongARM powered?
Well, it was one of the first distributions and generally thought of as the forerunner to Slackware (also one of the first). I have a CDROM with this Soft Landing Systems v1.2 from January 1994 (I believe it was) and it was from the times when one CDROM was plenty of space for a whole distribution :-)
These have probably all pretty much been stated by others somewhere in the humongous list of comments, but I will list them in order to emphasize that I find them important and so that moderators can see it and moderate accordingly:
:-)
:-)
1.Please don't change the bootup sequence from BSD to SysV. This is one strong reason I like Slackware.
2.Please keep the A and N disk sets installable on floppies because Slackware install is still one of the most flexible and versatile distributions that I know of. Especially when you are in a pinch with some broken pieces of hardware, eg. CDROM and need a truly safe type of install. It also makes rescue disks a possibility, which I hope will continue as well.
3.Please make Slackware also for Digital Alpha. I am now forced to use RedHat (I gave up on SuSE and haven't yet tried Debian), but would change to Slackware in a heartbeat if it existed. And my machine is a UDB/Multia so if the choice will be limited please include that one
4.I don't understand the people complaining about Slackware not having a package manager? Have they never tried pkgtool? In any case I hope you will continue using tar and gz (and/or bz2?) because they are generic and *open* tools and lets me the *user* deal with the installation as I want and not some arbitrary tool (cough*rpm*cough*cough) like in the MS/Mac world.
5.The setup/installation tool could be made so that when you get to the configure part you would have a menu to select what to configure instead of having to wade through it all every time. Only netconfig is mentioned as being possible to start up on a later time, but including xf86config and some sound config tool and let us choose from a menu would be great.
6.What I would like to be able to configure is:
A.LILO (already there)
B.Keyboard (already there)
C.Mouse (type, port, speed)
D.Serial (speed, uart, port, irq, etc.)
E.Parallel (normal, advanced, etc.)
F.CDROM (what device it is on)
G.Swap (I don't want every swap partition)
H.Better selection of partitions for install
I.Videocard for SVGAlib and XFree86
J.Soundcard (something that works, not sndconfig)
K.USB ports
L.Firewire ports
M.ISDN
N.PPP setup, eg. with ISP provided DNS host
O.Cablemodem setup
P.ADSL setup
Q.DHCP setup
R.Apache setup
S.DNS setup (apart from N.)
T.Better printer setup eg. with GS config
There is probably more if I start thinking about it
7.Don't *ever* make it a graphical install!!! I don't know how to emphasize this enough, but let the wimps choose another distribution if they want potential trouble already in the beginning.
This is all I can think of now, but all in all I want it to stay simple, versatile and flexible so I can attempt to throw it at almost any hardware I have that I want Linux on. What I miss most is help with setup and configuration of more things. Keep up the good work!
I would love to see a more advanced version of it, eg. including several views (outside, inside) and with the possibility of repairing your tank after having been hit. Of course a wider selection of weapons, perhaps other kinds of vehicles (fast-moving cars with limited weapons/armour, aircraft, etc.) and what have you. Make it sophisticated enough that no one is able to create a robot that no one else can win against, which happened in CROBOTS and apparently killed the interest for the game.
As a programmer using only Linux at home that would be the ultimate game, ie. I would finally install a game on my computers.
If you know of the existance of such a game already I would love to hear about it.