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From: Blue 
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Subject: Re: Ubuntu and Internet
Date: 5 Mar 2007 07:18:47 GMT
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On Sun, 04 Mar 2007 19:50:03 +0000, Pete wrote:

> Will a fully functioning Ubuntu machine be able to connect to the Internet 
> simply by connecting the network port to the free port on my router.
> (An XP machine can do this.)

Look if MS windows XP can do it, then its already been done with Linux.
Linux comes from a background where networking was required for the
terminal you sat at to work.

BTW the router is running Open Source software in all probability.
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