I like the idea, Chris, and would have personally found Ubuntu a lot easier to live with when first starting out if I didn't have to fight with the Gnome network connections manager to dial out and get connected.
One concern I have is with people with winmodems trying the tool and finding that they don't have everything they need to just get connected. I know that this is no worse than what would have happened to them, had they not immediately had gnome-ppp at their disposal, but I'm thinking that the potential inclusion of this by default brings up an opportunity to educate the user as to where they should go looking for drivers, and perhaps explain why their winmodem can't be supported out of the box. Everett Guerny https://launchpad.net/people/everett On 12/24/06, Chris Moriarity <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > > I'm a very satisfied Ubuntu user. I've installed Ubuntu Dapper on all > of the computers I own, including an old computer with no ethernet card > (but it has an ISA modem that works just fine with Linux). I then > noticed that the base system of Dapper (and Edgy) did not include > gnome-PPP, I either needed to download it or transfer it from another > machine that had high speed access. However, for someone with no high > speed Internet access, figuring out how to use a modem connection under > Linux without gnome-PPP could be a difficult task. I'd like to suggest > that you consider adding gnome-PPP to the base system of Ubuntu Feisty > and future Ubuntu releases. In many rural areas of the United States, > the only inexpensive Internet access option is dialup. I think that > Ubuntu could become more popular in the rural United States if the > system install included gnome-PPP if no ethernet card was detected, but > a Linux-friendly modem was detected. > > thank you > Chris Moriarity > Takoma Park, MD USA > > -- > ubuntu-marketing mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing > -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing
