Digital BW, The Print

Hi Martin,

If you decide to build a linux box go with the Red Hat distribution. All of
the pieces should fit together including Roy's patch. Mandrake is prettier
and for general purpose things is an easier distribution to work with but
their implementation of the cups driver makes installation of  QTR2
extremely difficult. I am going to try SuSe next since I have the discs on
hand.  If SuSe doesn't work then I guess I'll spring for RedHat. I'll see if
I can make freeBSD work as well.  In some ways that would be the best way to
go since there would be no variables due to the different implementations
within distributions.

The linux learning curve is steep but not too tall. Your comments about
fortran brought back not too fond memories of writing a quality control
package for a clinical laboratory.

Roger
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Martin Wesley [mailto:mwesley250@...]
  Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:25 AM
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Linux and QTR2




  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Justin Florentine [mailto:justin@...]
  > Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 7:07 AM
  > To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
  > Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Linux and QTR2
  >
  (snip earlier)
  >
  > A Linux system is not trivial to build or maintain.  I would not
  > recommend it to the un-initiated.  The good news is that there is TONS
  > of documentation out there on the net.  Sure, Linux is complicated, but
  > there is a huge community of people using  and documenting it.   As far
  > as flavor of Linux distribution, this is a religious issue.  I've used
  > many, but I had RedHat 9 discs at work, so I just grabbed them.  :)
  > Mandrake is quite good for beginners also.
  >
  > Most installation procedures are pretty straightforward nowadays, but
  > you must be ready to tinker under the hood afterwards.  It helps to be
  > comfortable using awkward command line interfaces and arcane text
  > editors.  If you're not scared of big ugly config files and compiling
  > your own software then you shouldn't have a problem maintaining a
  > Linux box.

  Justin,

  It's been awhile but I spent may years working in DOS and while I know
  UNIX/Linux is more complicated, the environment will not be completely
  strange. Haven't compiled a program since Fortran on key punch cards but
  maybe it will come back to me.<G> I will do some researching and see if I
  want to fiddle with it. Like most new or small user based operating
systems
  I imagine device drivers are an issue but for a print server the demands
  should not be very great.
  >
  > $500 will get you more than enough computer to start.  I haven't gotten
  > QTR2 running yet, so I can't really asses how resource intensive it is.
  > I can't imagine it'd be all that strenuous for a modern PC.  To give you
  > an idea, I'm running RH9 on a P2 500mhz w/256MB ram, and a smallish
  > harddrive.(10-20 gigs?).  I don't expect any problems.  I also tax this
  > machine in other ways (web server and other stuff).

  That's very good to know. I have and older 600MHz AMD system running Win
98
  as a scanning server for my Howtek. Perhaps I can set it up as a dual boot
  system to do double duty.

  Thanks for the info,
  Martin Wesley
  http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html


  (snip)



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