Incoming from bogi: > On November 17, 2004 19:55, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from bogi: > > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3830545.stm > > > > It's more like a LUG turns one year old. Take a look for yourself at > > <http://www.iraqilinux.org/>. CLUG might even learn something from > > As i read on, it seems the biggest problem is the unavailability of distros, > maybe even related to bandwidth and connectivity problems. Also read the
I've seen that complaint before. We all take connectivity for granted. Go somewhere like Africa and you learn that a pots land line is a luxury for many. Even if they can afford one, the infrastructure sucks, so they're unreliable. A couple of years ago, I got in contact with a guy in South Africa. He and his friends wanted to use Linux but just _finding_ CDs and books was impossible. I packed up all my obsolete (for here) Linux stuff and shipped it to him. They were ecstatic when it arrived. Days later, they had an installfest in the works. > forums they have, go into the helpme section ... see they had difficulty > installing in some cases, found mandrake to be too simple and ended up That could just be hardware incompatibility. Pick the wrong mboard and you're hosed if it isn't supported yet. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
