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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   SINNER wrote:   
   > CBFalconer wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >> Topaz_Crow wrote:   
   >    
   >> ... snip ...   
   >    
   >>> You seem to be the one not understanding. Everyone seems to applaud   
   >>> the efforts of Ubuntu to make life easy for new users. I know I do.   
   >    
   >> Here is another Ubuntu basic problem.  It is highly dependent on   
   >> Internet access to revise, install, etc.  Yet it comes without   
   >> means of accessing a dial-up line.  One of the first things needed   
   >> is a way of finding a driver for whatever modem (if possible).   
   >> There is a script extant to check the internal modem type, but it   
   >> is not present on the CD.  Once that hurdle is passed (I haven't)   
   >> there is the problem of downloading a driver, and no means for   
   >> that.  Again, they should all be on the CD.  Alternatively, there   
   >> should be an easily available (possibly pay) CD or CDs that include   
   >> a complete set of auxiliary components.   
   >    
   >> There isn't even a terminal capable of playing with the modem   
   >> interface.  If there was I could be attacking via an external   
   >> modem.   
   >    
   >> These things are all fixable, but haven't been.   
   >    
   > Do you post this on the forums, send it to the maintainers? The only way   
   > stuff gets fixed is if you tell someone its broke.   
      
   I have to take some of it back.  I also bought "The Official Ubuntu   
   Book", which comes with a DVD.  That contains much material that is   
   not on the distributed CD.  For example, I found minicom and   
   installed much documentation.  So far my advice is "Get the DVD".   
      
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