[Sussex] Taking the plunge

[Gavin Stevens]

Hi Geoff & all,
I could get away without using colour, so thanks for the idea.

However I finally set up my system - either Debian & WINE, or 
Win95/Debian 3 dual boot, I shall need to use some Windows apps. 
for sound/MIDI recording & editing & music score creating & printing. 
I will try Linux sound related apps., but there doesn't seem to be 
much in the way of well developed score writing packages just now. If 
there were, Windows wouldn't even feature as an option for me.

It is a true sign of the help I have received on this list & at sites like 
DebianHelp.org, that I've gone from trying Debian 2.2 as a complete 
Linux newbie to wanting to run Debian as my sole OS.

It would be v nice if the install for Debian 3 is a bit nicer than it was 
for 2.2. Here's hoping.

Gavin

On 27 Jun 2003, at 0:00, Geoff Teale wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 23:33, Gavin Stevens wrote:
> > Hi Tom & all,
> > Thanks for the link regarding the Lexmark - looks like I'll have to
> > get a new printer (Hewlett Packard perhaps?). 'tis a shame, as I like
> > the Lexmark, but if I'm going to be running Debian only, I must have
> > good functionality. A bit more research on my part, I think.
> 
> If you're buying a new printer, and colour isn't an issue I can
> thoroughly recommend Lexmark's E-series laser printers.  Dabs.com have
> the E321 going for <£200 and I picked up an E323 for £260.  These
> printers support Postcript Level 3 and below and PCL1 - PCL6 so they'll
> work with just about every OS written in the last 15 years.  I have my
> E323 hooked up to a linux box and CUPS is using ipp to make the printer
> available to my wife's work laptop (WinXP - :( ) and her iMac (which is
> really simple as Mac OS X runs CUPS as it's native print system!).
> 
> > Regarding WINE, I did mean printing from apps. running in WINE.
> 
> If you seriously planning on running Windows apps in the everyday it may
> be worth your while looking at something like Win4Lin.  Wine does a
> pretty good job though these days.
> 
> --
> GJT
> tealeg at member.fsf.org
> 
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