Oh, please, please, COME ON Ubuntu development people!

[chris]

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 17:40 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:50:48 +1200
> chris <chevhq at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I had some similar issues with Cannonical over their removal of the
> > wvdial packages from the cd distro's.  There justification was that
> > the bulk of the worlds users were on broadband.  Not true in NZ, nor
> > many third world countries.
> > 
> > Although in NZ most urban areas have dsl, the country areas a woefuly
> > provided for, as I believe is the case in parts of Aussie (NZ largest
> > Island); and bits of the USA.
> > 
> > When I questioned Cannonical about it I was told to download the meta
> > package.  With out a means of connecting to the net.  :-)
> 
> Truth to tell, although wvdial was removed, the ability to connect with
> dial-up was not.  pppconfig was and still is available.  That has never
> changed.
> 
True, but I was never able to get it to work.  Spent a long time mucking
around with it.