[Sderby] Printers and Linux

[Teh Gooroo]

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:59:47 +0000, Dave Coulson
<david.coulson6 at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> Thanks to all who considered my problem. It seems as if upgrading is the
> best way to recognise my printer, but to what distro. Someone mentioned
> Gentoo and I had a quick look at the site, but what is the general
> opinion and how close to the traditional Linux is it. I would hate to
> have to use lots of packages and scripts which would not be recognised
> in other distro's. Maybe its better to stick with Slackware and the
> likes. All opinions welcome!
> 
> Cheers Dave Coulson
> P.S Sorry Dominic, I seem to be giving in at last!!!!!!
> 
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gentoo is nice if you have the time and the desire... once its in it
is trivial to maintain if you have a decent net connection though.

"traditional" Linux is an interesting concept in itself - if you are
talking SysV then slackware is the obvious choice... good to get
yourself well grounded if nothing else. AND slack10 is really rather
impressive - the desktop looms ever nearer.
Packages and scripts not recognised in other distros?... well theres
the 2 init styles and as for packages.. they tend to be pretty much
distro specific, even if there is some vague attempt to import them.
RPM support in any distro other than fedora is a bit of mess, but then
thats only appropriate.

If u have time and a reasonable base knowledge, go gentoo.
If u want a system you can really know inside out, go slackware.
If u want a system that you really have no interest in and just want
to do things.. try suse or fedora or mandrake *shudder*.

OR if u _really_ wanna get inside the system try LFS + BLFS, well
worth doing at least once if OS' and systems genuinely interest you.


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