On Sat, Nov 15, 2003 at 12:35:06PM -0500, Linux Rocks ! wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2003 08:14 am, T. Joseph Carter wrote:
> : 2. The need to not need to fix something every time I have a paper, > : project, midterm, or other high-stress school thing pending in order to > : complete that thing. (OOo and, under Gentoo, ghostscript were common > : culprits, though portions of Gnome were also a factor..) Yeah, whoever maintains ghostscript in gentoo wasn't paying attention to what was happening in CUPS. However, I give them credit for using ESP ghostscript, which supports more than either AFPL or regular GNU ghostscript. > : 3. Sick and tired of hardware with half-assed support. ACPI-only notebook > : that couldn't be suspended in Linux safely, poor battery life because > : the speed controls didn't work, four button touchpad which only worked > : as two button because there was no driver, softmodems, PCI database, > : printer drivers which required annoying long command lines to print at > : more than 300 DPI and took 10-15 minutes to print a six page document, > : etc. > Well.. I can agree with this one, If hardware manufacturers didnt only write > drivers for windows, this wouldnt be much of a problem. The trick to this is > buy hardware that has either been around long enough for linux drivers to > exist. Or use hardware from manufacturers that want their hardware to be supported by Linux. In the printer realm, that would be Epson and HP. You don't have to type out long commands to get varying print quality with CUPS + gimp-print. You just have to set up different print queues for your printer, which you can do with lpr[ng] also, and has been the standard way to print at varying qualities on UNIX since BSD lpr. Hell, you can even graphically set up different print filters in KDE! Sorry, but griping about printing under Linux, IMHO, only shows that you didn't do your homework, either when buying the printer or when setting up your printing system. > : 7. Price for all of that for me as a student was $1649. NO IA32 notebook > : at the time could match the feature set at that price. It's still > : nearly impossible to get IA32 notebooks with the featureset integrated > : (mainly the DVD-R), but it is now at least possible on $2500-3000 > : models. > > really.... dell will give you a dvd-r free on any of their notebooks... you > can get them with most any notebook manufacturer that uses removable bay's in > thier laptops... you can even put a spare battery in that slot if you prefer! Sony actuallly has a DVD-R/CD-RW/standalone mp3 player "personal multimedia device" that's the size of a Walkman that plugs into USB. I can't find it on sony.com, but I have a flier for it that came with a DVD+/-RW I just got. > : 9. Warranty for 3 years (that was extra, but I didn't have to buy it at > : the same time I bought the notebook...) > > do some reading on the net, there are a lot of unhappy mac buyers, many are > diehard mac users that have gotten crappy hardware, and worse support. with > the mac, your pretty much stuck with mac support too... > Nearest I can tell, mac support and the quality of mac hardware went down the > tubes a year or more ago... which is a real shame, as that was where they > really shined. That, and they are obvious cohorts with Adobe. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
