On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:56:22PM +0000 or thereabouts, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
This issue in regards to printer problems with an epson 1160 printer realy pissed me off , and realy shows one of the mian weaknesses in linux and distros in genereral. The hardware suport for printers and newer hardware
Hi Samy, I noticed that another distro (Mandrake) has now standardized on CUPS to handle their printer stuff in Linux. I have seen this being used and it works well with many different printers. I think that SuSE could have offered it in this newest distro version as well. I think that SuSE is superbly engineered and extremely fast, as compared to most distros. What I feel is lacking is that when a new version comes out, its seems to be still behind in the latest technology as compared with the other distros. For example, others have put in KDE2 as standard default in their distro, others have had the LILO without the 1024 cylinder limitation out long before SuSE, others have had CUPS out now in the distro, etc. I bring this up in a constructive manner to express what competition is doing in their latest distros.
I think it is starting to show, too, at least here on this list. Think about it, if you have been following this list for a while (year or so). The traffic volume seems to definitely dropped, and it seems like
I have noticed this too. Not sure about the timing though. -- Best regards, Gary Today's thought: BREAKFAST.COM Halted - Cereal port not responding.