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From: "Sean Rima"
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Hi Michael!
I beg to differ, I use CUPS which does allow y ou to notify if the printer is out of paper/ink etc. Yes there are aspects of linux that are not newbie friendly but the more that Linux is pre-installed and simple user config then Linux will take over in the desktop market. A look at the new files arriving at freshmeat showes that development is there. However the development of commercial/shareware software does need to be encouraged.
I'm using CUPS, too. Regardless, I found myself in the position that my printer was stopped, but accepting jobs. I couldn't get the printer to start again; it stopped as soon as I started it. I have friends whose knowledge of computers is the on-off switch and a couple of software packages they use constantgly. This is the majority of computer users, I believe. They couldn't cope with this. Personally, I like Linux a lot and intend to keep using it. It has the potential to move to the average desktop, but it needs to take into account the majority of people who are not computer types. I'm hoping that development comes. That's what I was talking about.