> >"Copy and paste" is one of the two most broken items that do not work
> >correctly in Linux that because of preconceived ideas of standards.
> >
>
> Well.... every application (with KDE) I use accepts highlight + center
> button pasting except OpenOffice, which does fine with Windows-style
> Control-C, Control-V.
Works fine for me as well, except in very limited instances where the application has highly customized input handling.
> >The other major broken item is linux inability to have more than one - modem &
> >Ethernet - Internet configuration (not connection) at the same time such as
> >would be extremely useful for a laptop.
> >
> Huh? I have a laptop and I travel a lot. I use Mandrake, and I'm set up
> for wireless, wired LAN, and dialup modem all the time. Any distribution
> with decent hardware detection on boot and scripts that will load
> modules (hopefully already installed) you need for the hardware it
> detects can handle this without thinking about it at all.
I have a laptop as well, and, though I don't travel as much (who does? ;), I've never had a problem making a LAN or PPP connection.
> I know from my own tests that Red Hat, Xandros, Lycoris, ELX, and SuSE
> all deal with multiple connection methods, no problem. I'm sure most
> others do too.
Add Debian.
Levi
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