ubuntu whore-aye
the proxies at work are authenticated. they allow three types of traffic; anonymous ftp, http, and https. otherwise, you’re never getting out to the internet.
i installed ubunut’s hoary on the test dell gx270 under my desk at work. (yes, there’s more than one) given the nature of the work’net, it couldn’t go out and grab any updates. last time i installed ubuntu at work, it was warty and i could run ‘apt-setup’ to reconfigure for the authenticated proxy i’ve come to know and hate at work. “http://user:pass@proxy:port”
this time, i figure i’d run ‘apt-setup’ again and reconfigure the proxy stuff. no prompt for proxy configurations. i edited the /etc/apt/apt.conf (or whatever the developers have named it in this version. i don’t remember) to add the aquire::http::”http://user:pass@proxy:port” that works in other implementations of apt. however, it doesn’t work in whores-eye.
i haven’t poked around much to find the solution for this version. i wonder two things:
- would proxy support work better and be easier to use if the developers had to operate in an environment like this?
- how good would support be if linux developers didn’t have access to IRC all day long?
i’ll probably stick with debian sarge for server installations. at least its fucking proxy support works. linux isn’t ready for the desktop-environment.