linux in general and obvious things missing.

[Henk Poley]

I'm just looking for some opinion here. Have you noticed that linux in general just seems to be mising some obvious things? Like as far as I can tell, there's not "network wizard."

Tell me what it should do in your opinion and I might be able to point you at such a program (linuxconf?). Most networks nowadays are pretty much automated.

There's no way to make your CD rom drive unmount automaticaly when you press the button on the drive.

It exists, for example Red Hat will umount the CD (when not busy) if you press the eject button on your CD drive.

There's no way to change many drivers without recompiling the entire source code of the kernel.

This is irritating indeed. Sometimes it's "sloppyness" on the side of the driver programmer. As since it could also have been a module, and then could be compiled seperately (like for example the NVidia drivers).