[Gllug] Linux has arrived

Gary Pownall gary_pownall at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 22 21:57:03 UTC 2009


On 22 Mar 2009, at 12:05, Jason Clifford wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 11:30 +0000, Paul Lee wrote:
>> I'd qualify that. I really meant generic wireless USB adaptors. I  
>> have
>> to admit not testing any 3G dongles as I don't possess any.
>
> Some 3G dongles need to be modeswitched before they can be used for
> network access under Linux as they will, by default, run as USB  
> storage
> devices. I have one such, from Three, here and it works well. I needed
> to google for how to use it though.
>
>> With Ubuntu I'd say getting connectivity was now easier than say  
>> Windows
>> XP. I just wanted to walk into Macdonalds and Starbucks and connect
>> without a major fight. Thats been achieved.
>
> Ubuntu has really "made" Linux on the desktop as far as I am concerned
> and Canonical et al should be recognised for their good work. It's  
> true
> that any other distro can be made to work similarly but only Ubuntu  
> does
> so "out of the box".

Hear! Hear!  With a little help from Debian, too.
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