Sorry to Bill Southwell, I pressed the wrong reply button, but here is my message to the group: On Thursday 11 July 2002 12:02, Stephan Winklbauer wrote:
On Wednesday 10 July 2002 21:15, Bill Southwell wrote:
... And to be honest I need Win to print. Never was able to print with Suse. (I know some aren't going to like that I said that) And about an hour ago I needed to scan something, so shut down, connected SCSI, booted and whoops, I forgot the Sane that comes with Suse doesn't work. I'd have to deinstall it and compile/install the project files. No time for that, so I have to skip it.
I know they're doing their best, but it's a terrible distraction. I just wish I knew when 8.1 was expected so I could try and hold on.
I agree with the printing issue. I had a lot of problems with setting up printing properly under SuSE. After I installed SuSE and wanted to add some packages to my installation I was told that CUPS interferes with some package from ldp and vice versa. When I tried to resolve the conflict my printer stopped working from several applications. I was never able to sort this out properly. Also I had many problems printing from KDevelope. I tried to print in colour, i.e. source code highlighting, and I got a b&w printout or a failure by the enscript package. I thought that by using the standard installation it would have been all set up to work. It didn't. No I use emacs to print my source code or use MS Visual C++ Studio under my W2k installation to do the job. Sad that I have to resort to this, since I really like Linux.
I also have several issues with broken programs. When I try to start then, they load for some time and simply abort without any message. You might want to thing that the rpm packages on the SuSE CD at least work with the SUSE setup and when you install them with YAST2 the dependencies are working.
Regards
Stephan Winklbauer