:Groklaw: Three Ubuntu Books, reviewed by Groklaw's luvr
Groklaw: Three Ubuntu Books, reviewed by Groklaw's luvr Dec 31, 2006, 08 :00 UTC (7 Talkback[s]) (5261 reads)
"These days, Linux has come a long way, and it has become far more visually attractive, as well as much easier to install. The ease of installation became apparent to me when I booted an Ubuntu Live CD on a computer that had a wireless networking PCI card as its only networking interface; it had taken me great pains to get the networking interface to work under Windows XP (I had to install a driver that Windows considered "possibly incompatible with your hardware" -and that I cannot possibly remember how I found it-in order to get it up and running). Naturally, I assumed that, if even Windows XP had great trouble with the card, then, surely with Linux, it would be next to impossible to use.
"Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Ubuntu had not only correctly identified the hardware, but even installed working drivers for it-all without any help from me! To get it connected, I only had to specify my network name and my WEP key, and off I went."
