Me neither, watching this thread eagerly for the answer.... Also (naming no names), let us remind our selves of the third "aim" of the lug as printed on the website:
*Aims of the Group* 1. To provide an informal forum for Linux users in and around Peterborough 2. To learn together and help each other get the most out of Linux 3. To promote a pro-Linux attitude. We are not anti anything, simply pro-Linux Despite this I am going to cough in a slighly hippocritical way and say I also hate Vista, it has some cool windows games on it like 3d chess (maybe later ubuntu versions will also 3D-ize their currently rather bland standard 2D chess gameboards??), but thats about it - oh and if you are a gamer and you need directX 10 you dont have a choice about upgrading from XP as Vista is the only one that supports it. However I do still use XP on two of my 5 machines, the rest use Linux (specifically Ubuntu), or dual boot. Its not always end-user attitudes to Linux that need to be changed, its the vendors, so many vendors still only produce their drivers, utilities and control panels for their products just for windows. For example I have a Road Angel (GPS speed trap detector) and a utility used to update it needs to run on windows, and requires Internet Explorer, among its many "windows based" requirements, which is slightly annoying. I also have a digital dictaphone, the drivers and sychronisation utility for which are only availiable in windows formats. Like I say I am not really anti windows, but my reliance upon it for so many things is annoying I just wish there where more "platform independant" vendors out there, and whats more I dont see the problem, platform independance cuts down your workload as developers, as you only need to write one peice of code that works on all platforms, rather than writing a separate program for each paltform. Also, opening up your markets to users of other OSes surely opens up new market growthand the potential for extra revenues? Or am I just being too cynical? On 29/09/2007, Phil Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On the wider question - if a Windows XP host shares its USB printer, can > Linux machines print to that without needing a printer driver, or ?? > (I've never tried to share a printer to a Linux client). > > Phil > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro > -- ***** Richard Forth "I used to be indecisive, but now, I''m not so sure!" *****
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