Yesterday with the PPLUG (Phnom Penh Linux User Group), we celebrated the 'coming' of Cambodia in NM at our weekly gathering.

No sooner did I notice that afternoon on a fresh install that NetworkManager 0.7.999-2 boasted both 'my country is not listed' and 'Cambodia', I switched my laptop to sleep in order to try this with friends (and beer) only. Time to celebrate!

Right there, yesterday night at our 'beers'n'bytes usual waterhole, I plugged my phone, selected 'Cambodia', then Mobitel, then my plan, and seconds later I was browsing away...


So, we had a second beer then, honoring Dan Williams of RedHat for his help to us, exotic nerds on the other side of the planet. That was a quick, cool and fastly solved bug report!

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530981

Cheers community.


Jean-Philippe

Howdy!

IT'S NOT the meeting where you are supposed to have a laptop in hands taking meaningful notes;
IT'S NOT the kind where you must hold your cellphone at all times to Twit-Pic-Blog real-live;

Welcome to the only technomeeting in town that leaves your hands free to grab a beer instead.
(or two, of course)


See you ALL on this Tuesday, 6PM @ Freebird Café on 240. If we are all that many, we'll be in one of
the private rooms at the back or upstairs, ask the (always) friendly staff.

the Usual Suspects:
Chantra, Jean-Philippe, Viirak

Attachments:

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At the time of the Fedora 11 release, I didn't push anybody to upgrade to 11, while I've been a Fedora fanatic since F7. There was nothing wrong in F11 per se, only, it was slow, looked a bit bland... Now comes F12, that I recently installed, and updated (as of 08/02/2010):

Ouch.

GSM's 3G networks are still not working, while I know from reporting bugs to Dan Williams of RedHat that these people work hard to get it right... And it supposedly is, in so many other instances.

I have ben trying Ubuntu 9.10 too (9.04 was perfect in that respect), with the same not-even-pretend-to-connect isue; I know it's a broader problem because on my Music Workstation, a big deskop running a networlkless UbuntuStudio910, I installed the lot and it works there... I should file more bug reports, but I don't know where to start anyway!

So I advise, if 3G/EDGE is vital for you, that you stay away from F12 and U910 for now, alas. It may be particular to Cambodian networks.
I'll update as soon as I see it fixed; Curently, Debian Squeze and Sabayon5.0 do very good with 3g.

Cheers geeks & geekettes!

Jean-Philippe

Hi Phnom Penh!

We had a lot, lot, lot talks these last two days, and I had a very good time too so I want to post a quickie here:

To All you fellow Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux, Solaris and so on enthusiasts:

-Register to http://gourps.google.com/group/PPLUG to ask questions, and become a member of the community;

-MoonOS has a Forum, curently at http://www.moonos.co.cc/forum where Chanrithy is answering your questions;

-Ubuntu fans, first look here: Ubuntu Beginners Talk - register, get help and start helping others!

-And of course, if you want to share Howtos, tricks and recipes with the community here, just post them here!

(especially if you can write them in Khmer...)

Cheers! Thanks again!

That's right: Your computer can be fully in Khmer, with text editor, web browser, settings, games the whole lot! Thanks Open Institute for the CD/DVD boxes!

Localised version of the famous open source software suite - you can't beat having for free a full suite oif applications that is legally free, localised to the much improved Unicode system, and that is multi-standards compliant.