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The Lubuntu 17.04 Desktop/Live CD(ISO) is missing the package: net-tools[1]
It's troubling to find a LiveCD today that does not have something as simple as netstat and other important tools available.
It's also quite pathetic to discover the recent Debian LiveCDs are missing UFW[2].
[1] "This package includes the important tools for controlling the network subsystem of the Linux kernel. This includes arp, ifconfig, netstat, rarp, nameif and route."
[2] "The Uncomplicated FireWall is a front-end for iptables, to make managing a Netfilter firewall easier. It provides a command line interface with syntax similar to OpenBSD's Packet Filter. It is particularly well-suited as a host-based firewall."
[Ed note: Assuming one has an internet connection, can't one just do something along the lines of apt-get $package_name to fill in what is missing? Is this just whining on the part of the submitter or an actual shortcoming? What are your thoughts on this?]
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Monday June 12 2017, @05:02PM
I have never heard of the "dead rat strategy". But either way, it makes sense in the commercial software world where selling "new" makes you money. Not in the open source world. This is a breakdown of how generations of software devs look at problems differently. The graybeards were happy and content with cryptic ways of doing things because that saved precious memory in ye olde days. The whippersnappers look at grandpas terminal running on a machine with 15 megapixel displays (5k), GPU's that are faster than all the computers on earth at the time grandpa was waiting for his terminal to refresh, and storage where a terabyte fits on your finger tip. Grandpa's way looks pretty ancient so it's time to start over. And I can agree with that as long as it improves the tool. But in many cases, the mindset is "new is better". Why? It just is. Worse is better.