DeskTop Linux Whats your Fav Flavor?

sixonetonoffun · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:51 am

Mint is really refined and polished. That said one of the main reasons I never used it is that I needed a dialer gppp or kppp to get online. With Mint it was in the repositories but not on the install cd. I thought that was short sighted and figured if dial in users were that easily left out who am I to argue?

Mint did make me an ext4 convert though.

kd8hho · Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 111

sixonetonoffun wrote:

Mint is really refined and polished. That said one of the main reasons I never used it is that I needed a dialer gppp or kppp to get online. With Mint it was in the repositories but not on the install cd. I thought that was short sighted and figured if dial in users were that easily left out who am I to argue?

Mint did make me an ext4 convert though.

well you kinda got to think how many people actually use dial up anymore. i think the majority is on DSL or Cable.

sixonetonoffun · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:50 pm

I understand that. But I can't apologize for living in a rural community. If it wasn't for EVDO (for which I also use a dialer) I'd still be dial n waiting. Good news is with the increase in EVDO use there is a renewed interest in fixing all the broken dialers and network connection tools!

Guardian2003 · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 5:02 pm

Just goes to show how much we take for granted these days. Even here, in deepest, darkest, post-communist Slovakia, nestled at the base of Europe's second largest mountain range (The High Tatra's; part of the Carpathian Mountain Range) I have excellent internet.
I cannot even begin to imagine using a dial up modem.
Is satellite uplinks still expensive?

nuken · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:19 pm

4G wireless is cheaper that satellite now. We got Clear 4G for about $40 US a month with speeds as fast as cable.

sixonetonoffun · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:01 am

I love my 3G can't wait for 4G to come ! Would give up phones and TV before I'd give up the freedom!

sixonetonoffun · Posted: Tue Aug 17, 2010 3:10 pm

I moved over to openSUSE 11.3 not being afraid of the evil empire it seemed like a pretty safe bet. Wanted to give Fedora 13 a try but suse is working really well for me now.

Kubuntu 10.10 should be nice too but I was happy to leave ureadahead, grub2 and especially plymouth behind for a while. (Regressions not always a bad thing!)