Thanks!
I agree with him then. He should not feel obliged to buy new equipment.
Roy
Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 30 June 2011 10:53, c beck <usabecker@gmail.com> wrote:
> **
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Roy <linuxcanuck@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I get the time bit, but $. Has he paid for support and not got it? It
> makes
> > it sound like he is trolling and spreading FUD that Ubuntu costs money
> and
> > is not worth the effort. It is not for everybody, but it is free as in
> beer
> > and as in freedom. That is meaningful to many who choose Linux.
> >
> > Roy
>
> I believe the majority opinion (or at least voiced by a few) was that
> Fred probably needed to purchase some external modem that would play
> nicer with Linux. Might have been considering that he needed to buy
> more magazines to get linux distributions to test if dialup was
> natively supported there. In any case, I do not think Fred was a
> troll. He was just someone trying to get a dialup connection to use
> internet with his linux OS, and it ended up being more work than he
> was prepared to do. The bickering between members here and some
> conflicting information might not have helped.
>
> In the end, some really enjoy the learning and tinkering process.
> Others want their OS to work without fuss. Even as much as I enjoy
> the learning, I was put off linux on two separate occasions because I
> couldn't get wireless to work and was living in an apartment at the
> time where wireless was my only option. It was only when I finally
> had some time and proper motivation (about 2 years after I first
> tried) that I finally decided to conquer the learning curve and figure
> out how to get things going. It also helped that I had at that point
> been using the Bash and Korn shells for a year and a half at work, so
> it was all a lot less intimidating than it initially seemed.
>
> Cheers, ~Chris
>
>
> >
> > Using Kubuntu 11.04, 64-bit
> > Location: Canada
> >
> >
> > On 29 June 2011 16:12, Fred Lieberman <quartz@frontier.com> wrote:
> >
> >> **
> >>
> >>
> >> Thank you for all the help you have offered. I have decided to move on
> and
> >> not spend anymore time and $ on trying to make Ubuntu a part of my life.
> I
> >> have firewood to stack and other things to do that are more important
> than
> >> spending hours on something I find too hard to understand.
> >>
> >> Again, thank you.
> >>
> >> Fred
> >>
> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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