[Hardy] Include VPN connection with the Live CD
Bug #200250 reported by
Lex Ross
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #107738: FFE: network-manager-pptp isn't installed by default.
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Bug Description
My ISP requires VPN (PPTP connection) to access the Internet. This should be an easy thing to do right from the start.
And there is no easy way to configure VPN on either 7.10 or 8.04 Alpha 6 Desktop CD. Just think how essential Internet connection is to the installation process itself, and I have no idea why pptp-linux and network-
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In Russia (even in msk) LAN/MAN is primary internet access and in most cases it uses VPN for internet access, so when people install ubuntu, they cannot access internet.
Windows XP/Vista ships VPN support out of the box and ubuntu newbie think that Windows is more functional (at least user friendly). If there isn't guy who can help with network- manager- pptp installation, most likely user will stay on Windows.
It's bad :((.