On Thursday 30 October 2003 01:58, Old Sarge wrote:
To Patrick Shanahan, et al: I have been trying to get SuSe to work for several months, now and have been asking questions of several different people, to no avail. Linuxprinting.org is fine EXCEPT it does NOT give installation instructions that are understandable nor usable, by me!!!! Now, you get off your ego-centric high horse and put your alleged money where your mouth is and tell me which driver will work, and a clearcut installation instruction, leaving nothing out or to the imagination! I doubt you are any more up to the challenge than any of the rest of them. And, I got news for you, Mandrake works with the Canon BJC-2100 as I received a message from a person using them together!! I am not whining, but am tired of people like you who could do something positive to help Linux beat out Windows but won't!!!!! >:o -- Old Sarge, prefer using voice dictation because of my arthritis!
Sorry to hear you are suffering from arthritis, which I hope improves speedily. The rest of your mail reads rather like a troll, but assuming it isn't, please consider the fact that anyone on this list who has attempted to help you fix your printing problems is doing so on their own time and pro bono publico - taking a pop at them for not helping you as much as you would like is both rude and pointless. SuSE does 'work' - no idea if it works with your individual model of printer, but then this is a reminder that the way to proceed in setting up an IT system is to decide on the OS and other software you think will do the job you need, then buy appropriate hardware. On the other hand if Mandrake works with it, then so will SuSE - you need to put in the work, that's all. -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk