<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:lucida console,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><span>Well, this discussion intrigued me to test drive BlankOn: <a target="_blank" href="http://tek-ubuntu.blogspot.com/">http://tek-ubuntu.blogspot.com/</a></span><br><br><div> </div><font style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">:: Ang Tek Gie<br>:: rugbeeprop@yahoo.com</font><div><br></div><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tek Ang <rugbeeprop@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> John.Hopkinson@kwictech.com; The Canadian Ubuntu Users Community <ubuntu-ca@lists.ubuntu.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Mon, February 21, 2011 12:22:05 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: Dial-up Modems no longer supported<br></font><br><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>Who is Ubuntu's audience target?<br><br>I do agree with the availability of network access around the world. We are fortunate living in North America where high speed Internet access is <span style="font-weight: bold;">relatively</span> available <span style="font-weight: bold;">almost</span> everywhere because we have the infrastructure for it to happen.<br><br>When I went back to Indonesia, the majority of areas use phone line for their Internet access with various range of speed. Wifi hotspots were available in some areas like malls, coffee shops, etc. Growing up in Indonesia, the mindset regarding computers and technology are slightly different than us. They do want the latest and greatest things and this is where the 'pirates' come in play. You can find any software for literally less than the price of a bag of peanuts. And most of the users (almost like any general users in North America), updating for the latest packages/updates is not as crucial as all of us in this forum (which I am assuming that we run updates on a daily basis).<br><br>So, what I think are:<br><ul><li>Dial up should be made available for now (can someone confirm that even Windows 7 still support it?)</li><li>Humanity has come a long way from using stone. The success is due to our ingenuity, creativity and looking outside the box. So, lacking high speed access may not prevent anyone from obtaining anything.</li><li>There are a few Linux distributions that are developed in some of these countries. Balinux and BlankOn comes to mind from Indonesia. I know there are several distributions comes from China (I don't remember the name, but one of them made the look and feel like Windows XP).</li><li>So I am sure that these distributions may address the challenges that we are discussing.<br></li></ul><br><div> </div><font style="font-family: verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;" face="verdana, helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">:: Ang Tek Gie<br>:: rugbeeprop@yahoo.com</font><div><br></div><div style="font-family: lucida console,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div> </div></div></div> </div></body></html>