driver support

[J]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 16:48, David Lowe <da_legit_dubya at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> hello to all, I am an ubuntu newbie.

Welcome.

> My question is this: how many system components can I expect ubuntu to
> support?  My system has the majority of things you would expect: cd/dvd
> drive, etc.  3.5 floppy would be nice, but not required; & I would only need
> it temporarily anyway.

How many do you want to work.  I understand you're new at this, but
the kinds of things you're asking about have worked in linux for
almost two decades now..  See below:

> My two main concerns are these (other than basic system components)
> : a Motorola Clearwire modem, and a Cruzer Sandisk USB flashdrive/
> memory stick (whatever you want to call it).

I have yet to find a USB storage device that doesn't work.  Not saying
they aren't out there, but in general, 99% of them will work fine.
You can't, obviously, use weird WIndows software that comes pre-loaded
on them, but they work as intended anyway.

As for your Clearwire modem, these may help:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1243159
http://www.linuxwimax.org/

You may or may not get it working...  and good luck getting any kind
of help from Clearwire to make it work...  you MAY have luck if they
offer a PCMCIA card (or PC Card, perhaps) but I'm saying that on the
assumption you have one of their USB WiMAX modems...

> Also, since Ubuntu is a Linux clone, Euphoria should work on it...
> www.rapideuphoria.com
> Any response is appreciated.

Ubuntu is not a Linux clone... there's no such thing.  Ubuntu is as
Linux as Red Hat, SuSE, Mandriva, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo and all
the other OSs out there based on the Linux kernel...

So yes, unless the Euphoria developers did something weird, I can see
no reason at all why you couldn't code in it on Ubuntu... granted,
I've never used Euphoria, but they do have a Linux download, so I'm
fairly sure it's OS agnostic.

Cheers
Jeff