I travelled to Shanghai again on March 4, from Sydney. I found the same Free Internet Access machines sponsored by Oputs at Kingsford Smith airport. In fact I discovered this interesting thing last October when I went back to Shanghai to see my family. However, at that time I was in a hurry and I didn't have time play with it.
Operating System: Ubuntu Drapper Drake 6.06 LTS.
Desktop Environment: Gnome
Web Browser: Opera 9
How do I know that?
They did some tricks to limit user controls within a full-screened Opera Web Browser, key combination to switch to other pseudo consoles disabled. For some reason, they forgot to disable the key combination to restart X11 (U know what I am talking about, right?). I can't believe it! Hope they won't see this post:).
BTW:
Dapper Drake was my first Ubuntu version. At that time I was using Fedora Core 5. I have been using Fedora Core (now renamed to Fedora) for the past few years since it's initial release. Later on I decided to move to Debian/Ubuntu because of the APT package management. RPM really sucks.
I am more than happy to see GNU/Linux and open source apps to be used for non-profit or public services. It makes sense to make non-IT people aware that there are choices other than Microsoft Windows, and it's free of charge!
Bon voyage, Ubuntu! Well done, Debian GNU/Linux and the open source community.
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