[ubuntu-in] Artical about Ubuntu

[James Sebastian]

Hi Guys and Gals,

I use and advocate Ubuntu a lot these days to home users and small office
folks.

Two challenges I see when I relate to this article is still very big,

1. In the section Managing your machine "One thing that a user needs to
keep in mind is to buy Linux supported hardware. "

Unfortunately, this is not easy to find the hardware supported by Linux
(and many times that would mean an available RPM)  or Ubuntu.
While installing some hardware is a cake walk, installing some others still
means wading through command line. I may be able to do that with lot of
internet search, but not an average user whom I advise to use it.

Probably canonical/Ubuntu should  have another site similar to
http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
to list the devices like webcam, network cards, printers, scanners etc etc
which work out of the box for a listed version of Ubuntu.

2. Challenges section.  "To solve this problem the company can work with
local vendors to sell Ubuntu CDs."

  I do not know  if there is any company (canonical or another one) who
does that.

On Similar way, I am keen to know if any company is giving Ubuntu support
to check and resolve problems for any one who is willing to pay a
reasonable charge.

If there is a good solution for these two, I am sure Ubuntu can catch up
India very fast.

Regards,
James


On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Arvind Gupta <arvind.bernaulli at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Guys
>              Just come across this artical
> http://www.muktware.com/3890/india-can-be-ubuntus-impenetrable-fort on
> Muktware software magzine. What are your opinions folks?
>
> -regards
> Arvind
>
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