Subject: Re: Slackware vs Red Hat (or like distro)
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Tue Feb 18 2003 - 19:17:45 AKST
On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:14, petezilla! wrote:
>
> Hello world,
> I've been using Slack 8.1 for the better part of year. I'm very happy
> with my distro of choice, I've been able to do everything I've wanted
> which has been quite a bit. I'm adding a computer for the other "zilla".
> She's grown accustomed to using KDE and would very much like to use
> Linux on this coming computer (makes me smile).
>
> The meat of the matter: she needs to use a printer. I've never
> configured a printer within Slackware before. I've never needed to. It
> all seems fine from the searches I've done on the web. Things sometimes
> aren't quite as smooth for me as I've read on the web. School's in
> session, so times's thin for fighting with problems.
>
> Basically, I'd like any information and/or warnings about certain
> printer brands and printer configurators within distros (particularly
> the two listed but if you feel another distro might be better please
> tell me). Thanks for any and all help/advice/war stories. : )
>
> Regards,
> Peter Steven House
Postscript capable printers are easy to setup. I have a Brother Laser
printer that works with several different Linux printer drivers, does
both PS & PCL. I use 'gnulpr' which is a meta-package which uses
Printtool to configure your printers.
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