[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Adam Tauno Williams]

>>>>ACPI! ACPI! ACPI!  Laptop Linux users rejoice!
>>>Are you going to try it?  If so, PLEASE let me know how it works!
>>I intend to try it, ACPI would fix several problems I have.
>Cool.  Please let me know.  There is a debate on the DL-develop mailing
>list, if it's stable enough to include ACPI support in our kernel.

Will do.  I'll probably try in on Sunday, tearing the roof off my porch tomorrow
and have bad movie night tonight.  I'd really just like power off / reboot to
work, which doesn't on my laptop without ACPI enabled.

> The only reason we're even considering it, is some people want their PC
> to power-off on shutdown.  (we don't want the firewall to "sleep" :)

Right,  a firewall without a HD doesn't burn any power anyway.

>>>>And the Cyrpto API?!  Does this mean ipSec support won't suck?  PPTP
>>>>(i.e MPPE-128 can be built in)?  
>>>The word I heard is YES, FreeS/WAN should be able to work without a
>>>kernel patch.  HOWEVER, FreeS/WAN has to catch up with this latest
>>>development before it'll work.  Not sure about PPTP.
>>After some testing I'm thinking of cancelling support for all VPN
>>technologies other than OpenVPN when the new year rolls around.    It'll
>>crank some of the Win9x people I have left, but "Oh Well!".  Bill will
>>be happy with me since it will drive about half a dozen people to send
>>him more money.
>OpenVPN is free for Win32 users, right?  

Yes.  And the driver / use feels quite native, which is nice.  You create a text
config file, with a certain extension.  That file is associated with a openvpn
mime type, so it gets a meaningful icon.  Then you right click on the file and
"Start VPN Connection" is an option.  Very cool.

> upgrading from Win9x (not OpenVPN), right?

Yes.
 
And it says it supports Mac OS/X as well.

>>> Don't quote me on that.  My sources are not totally reliable.  :-)
>>I presume you DL guys would know everything about that.
>We'll know shortly.  I'm not the guy who does the kernel on DL.
>I ask the kernel guy your question, and got a rather short and cryptic
>answer.  My answer to you is what I *think* he was saying.  :-) 
>After he uploads the upgrade to 2.4.22 into CVS I'll know for sure.
>Hopefully that'll be soon, since he's REALLY been wanting 2.4.22.

Cool.