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Post #124,577
by static
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11/7/03 6:13:09 AM
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New You forgot printers.
Same situation as fonts ("still a bit of a black art, but getting better") and leading-edge hardware (lack of documentation).

Wade.

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Somebody save my life
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Please

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Post #124,578
by kmself
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11/7/03 6:57:56 AM
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New Printers: CUPS

Omission was largely intentional. Though I had to leave something for the rest of y'all to gripe on.

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Works pretty well in my experience. Yes, the documentation is wanting, and autodetect / polling would be really cool (or a directory-based assignment). But I have to say that printing under Linux is vastly far less a pain than in years past.

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And in all measures, it beats any other Unix printer config (though CUPS answers to that as well).

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Post #124,579
by admin
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11/7/03 8:40:15 AM
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New A lot of the drivers suck though.
I'm still looking for a driver for my Canon i960. This goes under your bleeding edge hardware gripe too.
Regards,

-scott anderson

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Post #124,582
by deSitter
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11/7/03 9:04:58 AM
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New Re: A lot of the drivers suck though.
It's Ghostscript that sucks.

My Lexmark came with a binary "unclean" Linux driver. Works perfectly.
-drl
     Linux annoyances - (kmself) - (29) - Nov. 7, 2003, 05:31:56 AM EST
         You forgot printers. - (static) - (3) - Nov. 7, 2003, 06:13:09 AM EST
             Printers: CUPS - (kmself) - (2) - Nov. 7, 2003, 06:57:56 AM EST
                 A lot of the drivers suck though. - (admin) - (1) - Nov. 7, 2003, 08:40:15 AM EST
                     Re: A lot of the drivers suck though. - (deSitter) - Nov. 7, 2003, 09:04:58 AM EST
         Re: Linux annoyances - (deSitter) - (24) - Nov. 7, 2003, 09:03:33 AM EST
             Re: Linux annoyances - (kmself) - (22) - Nov. 7, 2003, 09:51:52 AM EST
                 Re: Linux annoyances - (deSitter) - (19) - Nov. 7, 2003, 10:22:37 AM EST
                     Re: Linux annoyances - (pwhysall) - (18) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:01:23 AM EST
                         Re: Linux annoyances - (deSitter) - (17) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:21:56 AM EST
                             Mozilla 1.2? - (Yendor) - (5) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:43:25 AM EST
                                 Re: Mozilla 1.2? - (deSitter) - (4) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:54:24 AM EST
                                     Re: Mozilla 1.2? - (Yendor) - Nov. 7, 2003, 12:27:57 PM EST
                                     Talk to me - (orion) - (2) - Nov. 7, 2003, 12:30:47 PM EST
                                         Re: Talk to me - (deSitter) - (1) - Nov. 7, 2003, 12:40:54 PM EST
                                             I'll send you some email -NT - (orion) - Nov. 7, 2003, 01:42:39 PM EST
                             Never been an issue. - (admin) - (8) - Nov. 7, 2003, 02:10:40 PM EST
                                 Re: Never been an issue. - (deSitter) - (7) - Nov. 7, 2003, 02:16:51 PM EST
                                     I don't care how. - (admin) - (3) - Nov. 7, 2003, 02:37:17 PM EST
                                         I don't doubt that apt is good - (deSitter) - (2) - Nov. 7, 2003, 02:50:57 PM EST
                                             Look it up. - (admin) - Nov. 7, 2003, 02:52:49 PM EST
                                             apt and rpm are not equivalent - (pwhysall) - Nov. 8, 2003, 03:17:13 AM EST
                                     How does it know? Debian packaging infrastructure. - (kmself) - (2) - Nov. 8, 2003, 12:22:09 AM EST
                                         Thanks, very informative -NT - (deSitter) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:28:03 PM EST
                                         thanks for the link to Siobhan's paper - (cforde) - Nov. 8, 2003, 02:22:38 AM EST
                             That's a SuSE issue. - (pwhysall) - Nov. 8, 2003, 01:31:08 AM EST
                             Also... - (pwhysall) - Nov. 8, 2003, 01:34:41 AM EST
                 Linux is not Windows - (orion) - (1) - Nov. 7, 2003, 12:28:41 PM EST
                     Re: Linux is not Windows - (kmself) - Nov. 7, 2003, 11:23:37 PM EST
             www.google.com/search?q=fontconfig - (pwhysall) - Nov. 7, 2003, 09:57:21 AM EST

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