Ubuntu is King! - It feels like 15th Aug, 1947
[This post has been due for some time... and here it comes] I now know how Gandhi must have felt on the 15th of August, 1947! I now know how being free feels! I just had an experience with Ubuntu that was quite moving! I got this Dell laptop, which I carried with me to my parent's place at Chennai, INDIA, which has wireless home network. I booted it up with the Ubuntu fawn live CD and it came up nicely with a gNOME desktop and all. What really impressed me was that it detected the wireless network around and asked me the WEP key for it. I typed in the key and zip! I was connected to the internet! I am browsing and I created this blog+ post while on ubuntu on live CD! The performance is amazing, I have found an app for everything I needed so far... and I haven't even had to install it on my hard drive yet! Best part is that I was even able to find a tutorial for my reliance Netconnect (PCMCIA card for internet over CDMA) and got it running in under 10 mins! Now I can roam any