On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 18:37 +0530, arnuld wrote: > I have EPSON LX-300+ dot-matrix printer which works fine on Fedora, Arch > and Debian. I usually got to CUPS web-interface localhost:631 and set-up > my printer there using root account. on gNS I can't do that. whether root > account is enabled or not, gNS nevr accepts my root user-name/password > combination and throws back the same Pop-up for entering username/password > again and again.
Ubuntu broke cups. The web interface no longer works. > > > <RANT> > Google search for "UBUNTU printing" or "UBUNTU printer set-up" tells me > that I need to have a Desktop and then go to "Menu -> System > Administration" or to "Menu-> Printing". I searched on 2 pages of links I > get from Google and all talk about how to use Desktop Menu :(. Thats how you do printers in Ubuntu. > > I even hung on #ubuntu for sometime and noticed that majority of UBUNTU > community is totally common-sense-less. They are always asking for "How to > burn the CD ? What GUI for burning CD ? Can't we have a GUI for Network > Configuration. I conclude that UBUNTU encourages the same thinking and > environment that Microsoft encourages: "end-user must NOT know about his Thats unfair and unreasonable. #ubuntu exists *as a support channel*. Why on earth would you hold it against people that they are there *for support*? > syetem. he must point-and-click, even though it fails most of the time but > end-user must rely on GUI and if he fails, the search must not return > anything useful. Praise the Desktop and icons and click and throw the > command-line into Trash." Its called "User friendly" (or "Cutting of your nose to spite your face"). > </RANT> > > I don't use Desktops. I use wmii + Emacs + Firefox + rxvt-unicode, > sometimes I use Screen. Is it possible to set-up a printer on gNS without > GNOME menu ? No idea, but i dont like your chances (of easily managing at least). kk > -- arnuld > http://lispmachine.wordpress.com -- Karl Goetz, Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor http://www.kgoetz.id.au _______________________________________________ gNewSense-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnewsense-users
