[Gllug] Linux has arrived

[Gary Pownall]

On 22 Mar 2009, at 10:07, Christopher Hunter wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 08:20 +0000, John Hearns wrote:
>
>> A few weeks ago in the local Curry's store I saw a notice pinned up
>> beside the netbooks. The gist of it was "No 3G network dongles work
>> with Linux netbooks"
>> At a guess, there are one or two chipsets which don't work with  
>> Linux,
>> and the staff are not trained to steer the customers towards which
>> ones are, and don;t want to cope with customers coming back with
>> netbooks which "won't work".
>> Bad show.
>
> That's funny - we're buying Acer netbooks at work with their peculiar
> Linux distro on them and then using them with O2 dongles (not my  
> network
> of choice).  They work "out of the box"™ and just "see" the dongles as
> ethernet connections.  The good results with these are going some  
> way to
> persuade the rest of the organisation to examine migration away from
> proprietary-ware (at a MASSIVE cost saving!)
>
> C.
>
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Excellent news!

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