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  From: michael <michael@home.lyppard.com.au>
  To  : Dan Shearer <dan@tellurian.com.au>
  Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 18:54:45 +1030 (CST)

Re: Operating systems.

Hi.

I take have to disagree with you here Dan. I find the linux printing
easier than Windows, except in the case of the moving parallel printer
code which changed from kernel 2.0 to 2.2, and changes again in 2.4.
That's not a printer problem, it's a device problem. For the record, on my
hardware RedHat 5.2 was fine, 6.1 was toally unusable, and 6.2 is fine. I
haven't tried kernel 2.4 yet :)

The issues for windows are having the device drivers for the particular
printer at hand. That's not always possible. In linux, as long as I can
get to/from postscript, I can usually print. I have to say that Win2K has
been pretty good so far with printers for me, once I worked out that a
network IP printer uses a 'local' port (?) ...

Michael

On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Dan Shearer wrote:

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