b) Offer support to dial-up softmodens. Many Brasilian distros offer it, but is a polemical point, since that many softmodens drivers (like PCTEL HSP56MR) are covered by a proprietary license. Despite ADSL-like connections increase, too many people still using dial-up connections nowadays and is know that Linux distros forgot this hardware compatibility.
Nice of you to point this out. Although the choice of modem should be the users' responsibility (winmodems are usually hard to configure), it is still a concern that maybe the Mageia group/dev's could maybe concentrate on? Maybe, making the steps to dial-up modems a little more "user-friendly"? None of the distros take this into account as Linux is usually considered best done at ADSL hookups.
Marc
