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   Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:55:03 +0100   
   From: "Dirk T. Verbeek"    
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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   SINNER schreef:   
   > * 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 Dial-up is becoming outdated, and broadband   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?   
   >    
   Like for me with an older computer.   
   I have a PIII 500mHz with 385mb of ram that works quite nicely on    
   Xubuntu, including multi media.   
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