Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-29 Thread Johannes Meixner
Hello, On Jan 27 14:33 Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote (shortened): Hardware, specifically printers, include a list of operating systems which the product is known to work. For example purposes: Windows and Mac OS X are supported and no mention is made of Linux or UNIX. Buy a PostScript

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-29 Thread Bryan S. Tyson
On Monday 29 January 2007 11:36, Peter Nikolic wrote: I print every day to Brother laser printers from Linux via a pair of WiFi Print servers  they work a treat  in fact if anything is going to frigg me about on the printing side it is usually one of the windBloZe boxes that the rest of the

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-29 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: The IT world is faced with 3/4 main desktop operating systems, each with its own quirks and therefore each has hardware which will or wont work on it. I would specifically like to find out, as a non user of two of the OS's, if any of the OS's can be likened to

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-28 Thread Andre Truter
On 1/27/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] exasperating examples). I purchase platform independent hardware, and I purchase hardware supported specifically by unix-like systems... HP is an excellent vendor of Linux and Mac friendly hardware. This is true for printers, but

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-28 Thread Doug McGarrett
On Sunday 28 January 2007 04:14, Andre Truter wrote: On 1/27/07, M Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] exasperating examples). I purchase platform independent hardware, and I purchase hardware supported specifically by unix-like systems... HP is an excellent vendor of Linux and Mac

[opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-27 Thread Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC)
The IT world is faced with 3/4 main desktop operating systems, each with its own quirks and therefore each has hardware which will or wont work on it. I would specifically like to find out, as a non user of two of the OS's, if any of the OS's can be likened to another in terms of

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-27 Thread Alexey Eremenko
You should *not* assume that every Mac hardware works with Linux. You recommend you to search in the Open-Source hardware databses to find out + if possible bring Linux LiveCD to the computer shop to test the hardware you're going to buy with Linux. Fortunately, hardware is cheap nowadays,

Re: [opensuse] Mac OS X and Linux Product inter-compatibility?

2007-01-27 Thread M Harris
On Saturday 27 January 2007 06:33, Hylton Conacher(ZR1HPC) wrote: The IT world is faced with 3/4 main desktop operating systems, each with its own quirks and therefore each has hardware which will or wont work on it. I would specifically like to find out, as a non user of two of the OS's, if