Re: [newbie] Printing problems

On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ?

Re: [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:47:57 +0900, Pascal Goguey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Sorry, I forgot to ask this in my first reply but why do you feel the need to convert your friend to Linux if he is happy with Mac OS X? For a very simple reason: I don't think that proprietary software

Re(2): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some time :) Apps may get there, but drivers for video cards, sound cards, etc. is a friggin nightmare without end! Here you have some very nice and technically skilled programmers that are trying to play catch up with

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:32:57 -0500, Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally

Re: Re(2): [newbie] Mac OS X versus Linux?!

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 12:43:37 +0700, Brian Durant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true. I'm sure free software will get there; it'll just take some time :) Apps may get there, but drivers for video cards, sound cards, etc. is a friggin nightmare without end! Here you have some very nice and

[newbie] Kernel or Module?

Greetings, I have attempted a recompile of my kernel several times over now and can't seem to get it right. I need to install soundcore into the kernel, but I also need to install several different modules in order to stil be able to use many of the devices associated with my machine ie NIC,

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