NonBroadbandUsers
Differences between revisions 9 and 10
2339
Comment:
|
2354
Added myself to Interested
|
Deletions are marked like this. | Additions are marked like this. |
Line 7: | Line 7: |
* Interested: IrvinPiraman, ZakElep | * Interested: IrvinPiraman, ZakElep, EaldenEscanan |
Created: Date(2005-10-06T21:17:58Z) by JaneWeideman
Priority: NeedsPriority
People: NeedsLead, NeedsSecond
Contributors: JaneWeideman
Interested: IrvinPiraman, ZakElep, EaldenEscanan
Status: UbzSpecification, BrainDump (then DraftSpecification then EditedSpecification then ApprovedSpecification), DistroSpecification?, CommunitySpecification
Branch: UbuntuTrack
- Malone bug:
- Packages affected:
- Depends:
- Dependents:
- BoF sessions: none yet
Summary
Non-Broadband Users -In general have some thoughts at non-broadband users and what they need/miss.
Rationale
Use cases
- Alice does not have broadband at home, but she has broadband at work. Using a nifty front-end to apt-zip, she is able to collect the packages she needs at work on her USB key for installation when she returns home.
Note: There are people working on a solution for this: http://hyper-get.sourceforge.net/
- Bob uses Ubuntu on his laptop, and rarely connects to any network. He finds the network detection phase of the boot process very slow, and would like to disable it.
- Using a DVD containing all of Universe, Chris is able to install vastly more packages than are available on the installation CD without any connection to the internet.
- Joe, who doesn't have broadband at home, uses apt for windows or webapt at his windows machine at work to download a program including all its dependencies which are not installed by default on ubuntu in one compressed file, so he can install it easily at home.
- Mary, who doesn't have broadband at home, has to configure dialup. Right now, she's stuffed.
Scope
Design
Implementation
Code
Data preservation and migration
Outstanding issues
Modem Related Issues
- I recently installed Breezy on a laptop for my parents. Although the AC'97 modem support was in the standard installed kernel, the sl-modem-daemon package was not, and was not in the standard package set, so significant -fu was required to get it working.
- Even when the dialup was working, my parents were confused when dialling the internet because there was no progress or success dialog.
BoF agenda and discussion
NonBroadbandUsers (last edited 2009-06-18 09:12:09 by adsl-ull-114-70)