The fight to give up MS
adam stokes
ajs at nc.rr.com
Mon Jul 5 21:00:47 UTC 2004
devin rankin wrote:
>The fight to give up MS has been a 4 year battle with me. But today,
>another minor victory.
>
>Last year I moved to almost all Internet stuff on the Linux computer.
>Just about all web browsing and all e-mail was on the Fedora Core 1
>computer. But I had to use the MS box for printing and game playing.
>My printer, a Samsung ML1450, is plugged into a Hawking PN7127P mini
>print server. All my windows computers can print to it, but I have
>never been able to get my Linux computer to print to it. All the walk
>troughs I found failed. And I could never get the Java plug-in to work
>right in Mozilla.
>
>Over the weekend I did a fresh install with Fedora Core 2. For the
>first time, the Java install and Mozilla Java plug-in worked like it
>should and I can see Java content.
>
>And today, for the first time, I was able to print to my printer. Which
>makes Linux much more useful and brings me one step closer to being able
>to leave Windows behind.
>
>Now I have to tackle Wine so I can play Heroes of Might and Magic IV om
>my Linux computer.
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>Devin
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gl, dont forget to check out www.transgaming.com for your gaming stuff i
know its not native but not much else out there except for icculus.org :)
adam
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