Mark Shuttleworth, modems and windows
“Mark Shuttleworth interview with Slashdot”:http://interviews.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1859255&tid=90&tid=163&tid=160&tid=11 explains the dot com millionaire’s approach to making Open Source software work for Africa and pay.
Ubuntu update: The 5.04 Hoary install on this little laptop needs to have the modem drivers compiled.
* “wiki page for Lucent Winmodems”:http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WinModemLucent
* I used the Warty instructions after having tried the Hoary procedure first
* I suspect this might be to do with the kernel packages in use on this install is “Linux ubuntu 2.6.10-5-386″ instead of “686″ in the example shown on the wiki page
* I’m into XFCE4 as the desktop environment – can be made to look fast and snappy on this 700 MHz machine. Just make sure you _untick_ the ‘move window contents’ items in Window Manager Settings