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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by robryan on Friday April 02, 2021 @10:09PM (#26677896)
It really depends what is running. By default on Ubuntu at least it has a service that is blocking waiting for a network connection.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by bawolff on Friday April 02, 2021 @11:42PM (#26678262)
Hmm, i dont run ubuntu, but what happens if the wifi is down? That seems exceptionally silly.
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Re:Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today? by toast0 on Saturday April 03, 2021 @01:14AM (#26678583)
It used to be you could hit ctrl-c to stop waiting for dhcp. But last time I ran into that on Debian, you just had to wait for it to give up; of course that was also waiting for dhcp on a wired NIC that wasn't even plugged in.

That was quite a few years ago, I'd hope it got better, but it was one of the things that made me decide to move to FreeBSD.

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