[Gloucs] Linux and broadband

[Keith Edmunds]

Christian.Trapp at gmx.net wrote:
> I am looking for a broadband provider. Does somebody knows, which one
> supports Linux

Why do you want an ISP that supports Linux? The best thing you can do it 
put a hardware router on the line (I favour Draytek Vigors, but others 
will favour Netgear or whatever). Then you have an Ethernet port(s) you 
can plug anything into - Windows, Linux, Mac, VMS or even OS/8 if you 
can get an Ethernet driver... The kind of Linux support you'll get from 
an ISP will, I suspect, rarely be worth having although there are 
exceptions. By way of example, albeit Windows, BT's business - note 
BUSINESS - broadband service only support Microsoft Outlook Express as 
an email client: it does not support Microsoft Outlook. When I pointed 
out to them that Outlook was far more prevalent in business than Outlook 
Express, they justified their decision by saying that they supplied 
Outlook Express on the BT Broadband CD. My point is that even if you 
find an ISP that supports Linux, they'll probably only be happy to 
support KDE or Red Hat or some other restriction.

-- 
Keith Edmunds

+---------------------------------------------------------------------+
|  Tiger Computing Ltd  |  Helping businesses make the most of Linux  |
|  "The Linux Company"  |    http://www.TheLinuxConsultancy.co.uk     |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------+