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Yeah, the VPN paragraph had me laughing. Surely one of those 14 blogs should've mentioned "sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc". VPN is a breeze on Ubuntu.

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Yes, I saw that but it doesn’t work too well if you can’t use Network Manager to begin with.

See bug 55434 that I reported in december about this.

https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/55434

I had to switch to WiCD which did allow me to do WiFi at work.

Now, it may be possible that I could use network-manager-vpnc with WiCD but I couldn’t find a way to do that.

Ok, that's legitimate. But it sounds like your complaint is really with network manager, not Ubuntu's VPN support. And hey, at least you have a place to report bugs :)

There, my friend, you have a point!

Yes, my grouse is with Network Manager but that is really a distinction without a difference. I have a problem with Ubuntu by extension.

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