Catching up on missed slashdot, apropos the tool confusion /
disconnection discussion yesterday:
PapaZit asks: "Laptop and home users don't alway have access
to a network. There are many tasks that can be done
off-line, but require an occasional network connection
(reading and responding to email, for example). In the Free
Unix front, there has been some work in this direction, but
it hasn't made it anywhere outside of Windows. Coda has made
it possible for me to work with centralized files offline,
and I have some ugly scripts involving perl, fetchmail, and
procmail that handle email, but I wouldn't inflict them on
others. An OS with automated "Network indifference" seems
like it would be useful to both novice users and power
users, and it's the sort of thing that could make these
alternative operating systems more appealing to the masses.
Are there any efforts in this direction that could use
support or testers? Are people waiting until networking
becomes so ubiquitous that the problem goes away?"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/04/20/170209
jb
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