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  From: Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  To  : Adam Hawes <adam_hawes@dingoblue.net.au>
  Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 17:52:31 +1030 (CST)

Re: Operating systems.

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Adam Hawes wrote:

> > Probably 12 months ago I tried RH 6.0 and it took me a few goes to
> > get everything set up but it worked and I enjoyed the experience. For
> > whatever reason I lost access to the Linux partition so went back to
> > Windows. Under RH6 I couldn't get printer access.
> 
> Strangely, this is a stumbling point for many users.  The "new" printer
> subsystem of Linux compared to Windows is difficult to use and
> understand

Printing under any Unix is a real problem compared to Windows (or just
about any other OS, come to think of it.)
http://sourceforge.net/foundry/printing has tried to gather all sorts of
resources together to improve this. There was a Printing Summit recently
(which no FreeBSD representatives attended, which I want to see fixed next
time around.) CUPS is a big part of this, and it is supported by and on
BSD, Linux and the big commercial Unixes.

--
Dan Shearer
Open Source Manager
dan@tellurian.com.au

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