[plug] Graphical PPP

[craig at postnewspapers.com.au]

> I'm looking for a simple graphical point and click PPP setup for potato and 
> woody that is KPPP without KDE. This is for new (Computer Angels) users 
> with low end machines that can't manage KDE.
> 
> I'm assuming KPPP won't run in isolation and as soon as apt-get sees a 
> request for KPPP is will open a pandoras box full of barrels of monkeys 
> juggling cans of worms .. that is, it will depend on all manner of KDE 
> bits. Is this true ?
Not really. Kppp's depends are pretty limited on debian, which you'll
want to use for that system. Red Hat based distros tend to have much
more bloated deps for some reason.
I recently built one such system. I found it worked very well, except
that kppp tended to hang if you got kicked, and needed to be killed and
restarted. I set it up to autologin to user "dialup" on boot, and
whenever the X server was killed to return to the same place. So I told
the users (my housemates) to just control-alt-backspace the X server to
restore it if we got kicked.
It was a temporary measure anyway, we got cable not long after.