On Friday, November 18, 2011 08:46:15 AM, Mark Wallace wrote: > I deleted everything that I agreed with
Now that's some serious trimmin'! ;-) > On 11/18/2011 06:18 AM, Chris Knadle wrote: > > Couple of things I should touch on in this thread. > > /If a first time installer has the printer plugged in, then he will know > at once if it has a Linux driver. He might want the printer more than > he wants Linux. I still have a perfectly good unemployed Lexmark in the > basement that has no Linux Driver. Ah. Yeah okay that makes sense. For a long time now I've used network printers rather than directly connected to the box, so the printer isn't auto- detected at install time but rather I install it manually through the configuration panel. > My daughter bought a really nice Lexmark wireless that has a Linux driver > available on the internet, only you have to log in in root to run it and > Ubuntu comes with root disabled. Many Ubuntu users don't even know that > they have root disabled. It's typical for Mac OS X to disable the root account as well. And come to think of it, I wonder how Mint handles this. Debian leaves the root account enabled by default. > Free as in beer, root as in beer? Or maybe it's like a milk commercial. "Got root?" -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 7 - An Intro to Chef Jan 4 - Recovering the Brownfield: Revitalizing Open Source Projects Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server
