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* Doug McGarrett
It's really time for all the Linux vendors to find solutions for the printer problem.
Where HAVE you been. It has been discussed ad nasium here about the failure of VENDORS and MANUFACTURERS for provide drivers and/or information so linux programmers could even write drivers to support their printers. You have really made a *stupid* statement. You are not a newby, you profess this yourself.
There could be a Linux system on a whole lot of home computers if Linux would recognize and control printers, and CD drives, and write CD-r, etc, without any fancy moves.
same answer, same kind of ?statement.
People I know who have tried Linux recognize the printer problem, even if the manufacturers don't. For God's sake, the Linux manufacturers should _buy_ the printer driver code. They want enough money to sell you the OS, along with a $1.00 DVD and a $15 soft-cover book.
And I am NOT in favor of SuSE's stance of culling out all the proprietary software that makes a system friendly.
you still don't read the list, do you?
I am going to buy Mandriva and try it out next month, when it comes out. If things work out, I may not be back.
you *will* be missed.
I am not a computer geek, and since I have retired from a technically savvy company, I don't have any access to the computer geeks, (except for here, of course,) so I need something that works out of the box. Don't tell me to install Windows--I have that on another machine, but they are going to ration it, just as I have suspected all along. Every year or two, you'll have to send them some money to keep it working.
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