Support shortbacks in Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bits)

[Leandro Andrade Faria]

For the driver development team in Ubuntu distribution and the members of
brazillian Ubuntu Council,

Dear friends, my name is Leandro Faria, I'm brazillian and currently living
in Passos, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. I'm writting to you now in order
to comunicate one aspect of Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bits) OS that need
improvements. I just bought a new laptop from Positivo, which is the main
desktop, laptop and tablet manufacturer in Brazil, a company present in all
Latin America. This group sells equipments under two different brands:
Positivo and Sim+. Millions of machines every fiscal year. As a costumer, I
replaced the original Mandriva 2010.2 distro in my laptop for the current
Ubuntu 11.04 (64 bits). Unfortunately, the webcam that was working properly
along Mandriva is not supported in Ubuntu. As a result, I'll be forced to
install either another Linux distro or Windows to have my equipment fully
working. This letter is just to inform you that if my equipment was fully
supported by the Ubuntu built-in drivers, then I wouldn't remove Ubuntu at
all. Once the Ubuntu developers and Canonical have the goal of reaching 200
million users in the next couple of years, I think that it would be nice to
recognize that the Positivo equipments should be a priority as well, just as
it happens with Dell, HP, Lenovo etc. Many of this new Ubuntu users might
come from developing countries, specially Brazil. I ask you to thighten
relations with Positivo equipments sure that once this is done many
brazillian PC users would migrate to Ubuntu. Should I expect that the next
version Ubuntu, the 11.10 edition, will have a better support for this
manufacturer's machines? (special attention to webcam is necessary)

Please, accept my humble apologies for all the mistakes I've surely commited
while writting this email in english.

Thanks in advance for the attention,

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*Leandro Faria
*+55 35.8817.4536 (cell)
+55 35.3522.7576 (business)
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