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.
>
>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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