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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:29:59 GMT   
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   * bigjon wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:10:47 -0500, CBFalconer wrote:   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   > Forgive me, but even though I am a newbie, I do believe that the authors   
   > are looking forward, not back. Dial-up is becoming outdated, and broadband   
   > support is out of the box...   
      
   Broadband is certainly NOT the majority at this point.   
      
   > Little point in writing scripts for something that will all but disappear   
   > in a year or two?   
      
   Not if you dont want to limit your exposure.   
      
   > Most internet users want streaming media, music downloads and online   
   > content, virtually inaccesable with slower dial-ups?   
      
   Then why would ubuntu offer Xubuntu?   
      
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