Yes my friends this is your typical government Waste Of Money Brains and Time!

What is wrong you say? Well just suppose I went to my location and found some coverage. For me that would be wireless only as there is not cable or DSL within miles and that leaves only wireless.

Now I zoom it in and see it is covered. Big question is, covered by WHOM? I have guv'mint assurance that I can get it but no clue where to sign up. Thank you for nothing tax payers er bureau rats.

Seems to me the target for this stuff would be the un-served rural population. There are millions of us out here who will be dead and gone long before we get even DSL service. You are looking at huge areas with insufficient population to support any "for profit" service except possibly wireless.

That brings us to the infrastructure needed. You have to have towers, power, radios, antennas, and back haul. Just because you make the spectrum "free" and declare service free does not put the necessary equipment in place.

Maybe they will pay for it with the surplus funds they make from 0bama health care.

Good to hear. Going to save my effort.

Several years ago, thinking it would be cool, I set about to put Solaris on a T22. Working for HP at the time so send me to see customer with my stinkpad running Solaris. Great stuff, after all it ran forever on a Sparc 10.

Installation was not a big problem. I think it even gave me X. However it did not recognize the built in nic and it didn't do PCMCIA and it didn't know what to do with USB. The only i/o was going to be serial or sneaker net.

Needless to say it didn't last long. I :heart: solaris, but put it on a platform it is made for. Put Linux on your laptop.