release party was great!

[Martin Owens]

The USB support comes from the linux kernel and isn't so much in the
power of the gutsy team. saying that though I've _never_ seen a usb
cipset, usb hub or other usb networking device fail to work since the
usb standard is extreamly well supported in linux and has been for
years.

Perhaps there is something percuilur with your motherboard and it's
usb chipset; if you'd like to send me a hardware profile I could look
at it but for now you the first person I've heard for a long long time
(years) to say their usb doesn't work at all.

On 19/10/2007, George Ernest Noon <george.noon at yahoo.com> wrote:
>         I thought the release party held last evening
> at the Globe was great. I didn't really know anyone,
> as I am still quite new to this OS, and by nature
> somewhat cautious --- also, I don't tend to be very
> pushy in making new acquaintances...
>         This was actually my second foray into an
> organized group of Linux users -- the first was the
> Software Freedom Day get  together held in Chinatown,
> Boston - last month, i believe.
>         Initially, i would have had my son along, but
> as he's now assistant manager of the Convenience Store
> he works at, in Middleboro MA, and someone had called in
> sick, he had to cover the time himself. Also, a friend from
> Freetown had originally planned on attending with us,
> but he had to meet with a couple of roofing contractors,
> to arrange getting a new roof done on his home.
>         Was a bit surprised to be probably the oldest one
> in attendance; I don't know why that should be, after all,
> I know hat a big time University locale the Boston area is -
> I guess I just there would be a greater number of longer
> experienced computer users there - [an attempt to avoid
> saying oldest, again] looking toward getting free of that
> ever-so-costly, non-freedom-embracing OS from Redmond WA!
>         Any way' friends, thanks for a great time -- will be
> on the lookout for other get togethers, and getting my new
> computer set up with Ubuntu - first with Feisty, then after
> I've settled in with it a bit, I'll upgrade to Gutsy; hopefully,
> by then, it will have support for USB --- otherwise the upgrade
> would sort of leave me input-crippled: my Kensington Expert
> Mouse Trackball and Gigaware (dvorak-ized) Keyboard are both
> USB types, as is a 40GB external portable HD I use. I really don't
> understand why the Gutsy team would have opted not to support USB.
> Hopefully, perhaps the reports to that effect are in error.
> ~~~~George Noon [Whitman MA]
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