Digital BW, The Print

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Good to know on the CUPS differences Roger, nice catch.

All the RedHat software is pretty much the same, what you usually get 
with the Professional edition is better support.

The software itself is free.  If you can bear it, you can sit through 
the downloads of the CD ISOimages from
http://www.linuxiso.org which will give you a disc image that you can 
burn to CD.  Once you have them all you can boot right off of them into 
the installer program.  BANG!  Free OS OS.

Martin Wesley wrote:

|>-----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
|
|
|(snip earlier)
|
|
|
|
|
|Please visit the Group Homepage to check the Files, Bookmarks, Polls 
and other resources as they are often being updated. The page is at:
|
|http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint
|
|If you wish to receive no emails or just a daily digest, or you wish to 
unsubscribe, please edit your Membership preferences by visiting this 
same page.
|
|Please follow these basic guidelines:
|- Include your full name with your message.
|- Include the address of your website, if you have one.
|- As threads develop, trim off excess portions of earlier messages to 
keep them short.
|- As the topic of a thread changes remember to change the subject header.
|- Good manners are required at all time. No personal attacks or flames
|- Complete your Yahoo profile.
|- Before posting a question, search the message archives and the 
various resources on the homepage.
|
|
|
|
|Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
|
|

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQE/Mp5Pu7srlnPHEE8RAsX2AJ9owH8tOYAvn8rEtn2/0bZaktXlsACdGCH5
3D5UAwm/z7ONMp9C0d9J5h8=
=1FlZ
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----