Posts by andy

US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet

Unfortunate

It's hard not to roll your eyes to this story, particularly the bit about Microsoft Word. And the idea of cancelling study and blaming Ubuntu is a little sad, but I can understand someone who isn't tech-savvy freaking out about it.

Has anyone seen the Dell website? There is [usually] a page of warning about choosing a system with Ubuntu Installed.

I can think of five places other than Dell offhand she could have looked for help with Ubuntu, including googling "Verizon Ubuntu" or "Word Ubuntu". Why is she worried about voiding the warranty by installing Windows if she _can't get it to do what she needs it for_?

I hope the Linux community and internet community in general gives her a break though.

Ubuntu documentation in shreds

@Anonymous Coward

Strange posts.

The point is that the wiki is badly organised and has little in terms of minimum standards. It needs cleaning up, but hasn't gained momentum

This has little if anything to do with OSS - the wiki writers don't necessarily write any code. The problem stems from bad implementation/requirments of standards for writing a wiki.

This has no correlation to the quality of Ubuntu, how easy it is to find a 'howto' online (as posted by Martin Usher), or an imaginary lack of commercial support (which is offered by Canconical).