Digital BW, The Print

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger L Sopher [mailto:rlsopher@...]
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 9:50 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: RE: [Digital BW] Linux and QTR2
>
>
> 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.

Roger,

Thanks for the info. Definitely makes sense at this point to stay as close
to what Roy has done as possible. I notice there are standard and
"Professional" versions of Red Hat 9 available with a ~$100 price
difference. Any benefit to going for the pro version?
>
> 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.

Yeah I entered college engineering very interested in computers but after
semesters on IBM key punch machines and clunky time shared terminals, I
graduated hating them. Wasn't until I got a PC on my desk to play with that
I came to love the beasts.

Martin Wesley
http://www.borderless-photos.de/guests.html


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