OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[Charles E Taylor IV]

On Wed, 11 May 2005 15:53:25 +0800
John Summerfied <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:

[Ubuntu / Printers vs. Fedora Core]

> Plug in a USB printer, I would expect (as on FC) a GUI to pop up. On FC 
> I configure network printers with CUPS - the RH tool does not work 
> satsifactorily. You should see how a RH-configured CUPS printer appears 
> to my Mac:-((

I'd expect USB pritner setup to go smoothly.  For my work setup, though, I
need to set up three print queues: a USB printer, a SMB printer, and a
parallel printer.  It's the SMB printer I'm worried about.  Haven't had
time to take the Ubuntu test machine to that environment yet, though.

Since none of my machines are print servers, I haven't had a chance to see
how the Fedora tool mangles that. :)

Detup of the three print quesues on my laptop with Fedora Core 3 was
pretty easy.  The only real difficulty I ran into was with the USB
printer (Samsung ML-1410 if I remember the model number right)  The
automatically-generated print queue defaults to the wrong page size, 
and I didn't see an easy way to change that - except manually set up a
print queue for the Samsung printer.

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