On Friday 05 May 2006 00:07, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote: > Maybe you could mention a few more to support your statement of them > being linux unfriendly.
1. Proprietary protocol so nobody can write a "free" dialer. 2. The momentary lockout that you said. Well, during it the CC actually told people to switch to windows to continue using their services. They were blissfully unaware of Linux users but as time passed by they came to their senses. 3. Their dialer works as root only. Hehe, I dont want any piece of software running on my machine to work as root especially written by Sify psychos. I know there are alternatives available but I dont know if any of them will run as a daemon. 4. No customer support for Linux users. Atleast Reliance powersurfer has _some_ customer support for Linux and they are willing to put your line in "leased line" mode if you have hassles with their 24Online Client. No such issues with MTNL / BSNL or Airtel. Apart from these issues I cant think of anything immediately relating to Linux. I have also had disputes with them in the past. And the CTO charge their own "maintenance" fee over and above the Sify packages. And perhaps the most serious issue being that people have fried that motherboards, lan cards with Sify connections. Though this can happen to anyone using such cable ISPs. But it seems that Sify is the worst affected one. -- Regards, Dinesh A. Joshi -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
