gOS does not work with any kind of dial up (modem) connections, the main reason is not that cheapskate Win-modems are impossible to support under Linux (there are also Lin-Modems), but that the performance of these nasty creations are much to poor to support a "cloud agent" such as gOS. Things like Google gadgets and other cloud based features would perform vet badly. If you -must- use a modem connection, I would advise you to use Ubuntu instead.
On 18 dec, 20:23, Graham Todd <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 10:56:27 -0500 > > "Lewis Donofrio" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Ok please do not flame me here but does this distro address the > > WinModem issues (yes people still use these analog devices) out of > > the box, I mean can I use > > --Also anyone know how to get wine to enable the usb support (iTunes > > is kinda popular) > > WinModems use part of the Windows operating system to function, and > will not function without Windows, or a rewritten part of it. > Rewriting Windows is clearly contrary to the EULA, copyright, and > license that Microsoft hold. It may also be contrary to the terms of > GPL3 (not sure about this) but is anyway contrary to the free (as in > freedom) software ethic. > > Not all "analogue devices" are WinModems; this kind of modem is > generally present as an internal card. Instead of trying to find a > distro that works with WinModems, you will be better off and shed less > blood, sweat and tears if you look for an external modem, or an > alternative internal card, neither of which requires Windows to be > present for them to work. Further information can be found > on:http://linmodems.org/ > > I very much doubt that gOS supports WinModems out of the box, but I > don't use them so I couldn't say for sure. However, I have an > venerable ageing external Diamond Express modem that connects with the > serial port, which I use to send faxes over the phone line. Even this > is not strictly necessary as I have an account with Efax > (http://www.efax.com), but I can say the Diamond Express works great > with gOS (or should that be with Ubuntu 8.04). > > Wine is not a Windows emulator, but provides code which resembles an > API layer to interact with the Linux Kernel. The Linux kernel already > has usb support so its not necessary to include it within Wine. I > don't know which application you are trying to run with Wine, but if > you use Amarok you will have integration with a number of online music > services without having access to any Windows applications - by far the > best way. You can find out what applications work with Wine by > consultinghttp://appdb.winehq.org/. > > Codeweavers have put their work in developing the Wine project to use > in developing the Crossover series in which more applications are > supported. Crossover Linux is not without cost, but for some > applications who do not have their equal in Linux applications, it > might be worth investigating. > > HTH > > -- > Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
