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Good for you. We all find our own level.

Bye..... Have fun....

Hugs and Kisses and all that.

Quote:> It really is. I'm sticking to windows. You can't even install a
> printer for christs sake.

Don't take it as an insult, but if you think so lowly of Linux, please
refrain from posting here again.

Oh, but I *can*

Don't you mean *you* can't install a printer ?

It's not hard, but of course not all printers work
with Linux, ie Winprinters, which are cheap and *
junk, that require the PC CPU to do the things that
any decent printer has an embedded microprocessor
to do.

Personally I use a nice second hand IBM 4029 Postscript
laser printer that cost me $70.

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If I've told you one, I've told you a bazillion times Flatty,
         *don't exaggerate*

Quote:

> flatfish+++
> "Why do they call it a flatfish?"

The don't, they call it a Wintroll!

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And you are the jewel that lights up the night. (8-)) Just install
Appsfilter or CUPS, followed by the dependent packages (Ghoscript,
ImageMagick, etc.)

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Somehow I knew you and windows would be a perfect match. When are you
moving to AOL?

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Aw, you lucky DOG!!! :-)

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Quote:> Aw, you lucky DOG!!! :-)

Heheh, I even bought a spare, and 2 more for parts!

I was even lucky enough to get 8 megs of ram for
them as well.

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Quote:>> It really is. I'm sticking to windows. You can't even install a printer
>> for christs sake.

> Don't you mean *you* can't install a printer ?

> It's not hard, but of course not all printers work with Linux, ie
> Winprinters, which are cheap and * junk, that require the PC CPU to
> do the things that any decent printer has an embedded microprocessor to
> do.

> Personally I use a nice second hand IBM 4029 Postscript laser printer
> that cost me $70.

$70 PS laser printer? Wow! is it any good?

-Ed

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That's fine man.  Stick to it as long as you can or like.

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Oh kiss my *Ayende.

If anybody thinks as lowly of the GPL'D code, it would be you.

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Charlie
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You are not completely correct - if you look at www.linuxprinting.org you
will notice that most Cheap&* Winprinters are supported as well.

Linux also has the advantage of not needing to hunt for the driver disk
when you change to a new printer as most drivers are installed with the
operating system - my father recently bought a cheap shop-clearance Canon
BJC2000 printer (without drivers or manual) which I tested for him. On my
Mandrake system I just used the CUPS WWW admin tool to add the printer and
test it, to get it working on his Windows machine I had to download 3mb of
driver from canon's website.

Quote:> It really is. I'm sticking to windows. You can't even install a
> printer for christs sake.

Funny, both Mandrake 8.0 and SuSE 7.1 installed a driver for my Epson
Color 640 quite happily.

The Gimp on the other hand insisted on sending my non postscript printer
raw psotscript until I told it otherwise. This despite the Epson printer
being the so called "default".

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