ISPs allowing desktop Linux client to surf the web?

[David Miller]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 2:58 PM,  <david_a_reed-fZsAqLoOLWc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Although I've used desktop Linux (SuSe, Knoppix, Ubuntu) for various accounting functions for ten years and have been running Apache web servers on RHEL for nearly as long, my personal web surfing has always been via Windows.  Now I would like to surf the web from a Linux client (Ubuntu or Puppy), I'm wondering if there are any Linux-friendly ISPs servicing the Boston-to-Cape Cod area.
>
> When I Google "Linux-friendly ISP" the only one I come up with is Eskimo.com in the state of Washington.  As far as I can tell, Comcast and Verizon require Windows or Mac on the client machine.  Is that on account of the hardware that they provide?
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> Also, am I correct in assuming that a Linux client with a dial-up 56K modem should be able to use any service provider?
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions would be appreciated.
>

The reason that most ISP's require any OS is b/c someone in marketing
thought they needed to specify that.  Now it also means that calling
their technical support and or looking through their online knowledge
base may not help you setup your email client etc.  But once your
router has an IP address anything that supports IPv4 is going to work.

So I would pick an ISP based on cost, speed, and policies.  Other than
their help desks they are for the most part OS agnostic.
--
David