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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 12 2017, @09:09PM (1 child)
Looks to me like this. Linux started out as a free alternative to the SCO-dified Unice$$ of yesteryear. It took off. It does 99% what "good ole Unix" did, and in many areas has improved. One quick example: 'cp' (copy) has a '-r' (recurse into folders) option - yay no more "find / blah-blah | cpio many-flags".
BUT, Linux has become all about the (myriad) desktop managers, all about the look and feel, GUI, user-easy gloss. Not that any of that is bad. In fact it is the reason I and many others now run Linux on a daily basis. In the melee for eye-candy, the BASICS of Unix have been slowly lost. Oh, only 4% of our users want this, so we will leave this (previously stock-standard) utility out of the install media / ISO. And this one, and this one too, and.. this one. In the end you get a watered down system that looks great but lacks the powertools that are the building blocks for its very success. I want a full set of bricks so I can build anything I want - that IS the Unix way. My 2c, YMMV.
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday June 12 2017, @09:13PM
Let new utilities have a "Checking for long greybear tools......[Not found, No computing for you!]" ;-)
Anyway its mostly a problem with new people that are ignorant. And that can be exploited to bite them.