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I had recently got MTS 3GPLUS dongle. It is made ZTE and really good news about it is that it supports Linux and it is mentioned in their website (you can view the supported os list in "tech spec"). I have tried it in Windows 8, OSX Mavericks and Ubuntu 13.04 and it works really well on all these platforms.

In mac and windows, it will auto configure everything for you. But in Linux, you need to install it manually. When I plugged it into my ubuntu, it was detected as USB drive but there was no auto configure for it. Even I was not able to load the installation files in Ubuntu. Then I have to plug it into another Windows and was able to see it includes the files for installing it in Linux too.

Some times you may want to know which linux distribution you are using. You may tell that while starting the Linux desktop we can see which linux distribution you are using as each linux distro has different boot splash screen and they will show the name while booting. But if you want to know which version of Ubuntu you are using like version 9.04 or 10.10 etc or if you want to know the code name given by Canonical for the Ubuntu which you are using?( Ubuntu uses code name for different versions of it. For example, Ubuntu 10.10 known as Maverick Meercat and next version 11.04 known as Natty Narwahl).In Ubuntu and other gnome based distros we can use "System Monitor" or softwares like  Ubuntu Tweak not only provides an easy way to view sytem information but a single stop destination for managing your system. But the "System Monitor" utility is only available for Gnome and if you are using KDE or any other desktop environment?There will be some apps but it will be different from one another. So what is the universal solution which will work with all the linux distros?