Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 23:08, Buchan Milne wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > > On Friday 17 January 2003 17:10, Marcel Pol wrote: > > > But it limits you to X Window. So if you run a Mac, you need X Window > > > on there. The same with Windows. Also the server needs at least th

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Steffen Barszus
On Friday 17 January 2003 12:01, Buchan Milne wrote: > Speaking of scanners, someone needs to look at making saned (a killer > application, sharing a scanner under windows is impossible, but can be > done under linux with some effort at present) easier to setup. Yeah easy-scanner-sharing for all w

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 17:10, Marcel Pol wrote: > But it limits you to X Window. So if you run a Mac, you need X Window on > there. The same with Windows. Also the server needs at least the X Window > libs installed. So you can call it a bit of overhead. That still leaves VNC as an option.:o)

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread Timothy R. Butler
Hi Buchan, > Tim, I know you review a lot, and probably don't have time to follow > cooker, so I will just bring you up to date with some of the issues you > have brought up ... Thanks! Indeed, I haven't had the pleasure of following cooker for about two or three months. I just resubscribed so

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread SI Reasoning
Buchan Milne ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >H.J.Bathoorn wrote: >> On Friday 17 January 2003 11:22, Marcel Pol wrote: > >> But what's the point of having a shared scanner? > most likely scenario: a terminal server with thin clients with the scanner hooked to a thin client. This would allow any pers

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 13:46, Buchan Milne wrote: > My mom can't use ssh, but she can use sane-twain (well, just hit the > scan button) on Windows. So if I read correctly all that would be called for is an extra button "network scan" which has the commands (including login, etc.) for a remote

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread et
I have a share scanner here, and the four desks around the workstation can all reach the single scanner, and we all do'nt even have to get up out of our seats to fax or scan a document. > > But what's the point of having a shared scanner? > > Same could mostly be said for a shared printer (assumi

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 12:24, Marcel Pol wrote: > No need to run around with that scanner, and making sure you have drivers > installed on every machine. I was referring to a network with a scanner somewhere. Once the image is scanned it is 'de facto' accessible on the network as a file. > An

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 11:22, Marcel Pol wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 13:01:27 +0200 > > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Speaking of scanners, someone needs to look at making saned (a killer > > application, sharing a scanner under windows is impossible, but can be > > done under lin

Re: [Cooker] IMO: How Mandrake 9.1 Can Be The 'Killer App' for Desktop Linux

2003-01-17 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Friday 17 January 2003 08:52, Brant Fitzsimmons wrote: > Timothy R. Butler wrote: > > C.) DrakeFont is a GREAT, STUPENDIOUS tool, but it seems to choke fairly > >easily without explaination. For example, I have about 250 truetype fonts > >that I copied from my last Linux installation (also MDK