Hi Gerald, Thanks for posting your thoughts. Regarding hardware support, you can write Canon about it. I did. And I was politely told that their company is not planning anytime in the near future to support Linux. I threw the printer away, and bought HP instead. LOL. Of course, not after the Canon printer broke down after a long time of use (not in Linux, though). Lesson learned: research is a good habit done before purchase is made.
My 2 cents. On 4/30/07, Gerald Cenir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi All, I am running on Kubuntu Edgy and bought a Canon Pixma iP1300 printer. As usual, it doesn't have a driver for Linux included in the CD so I browsed the net for drivers. I found a driver but it is in rpm. I just found out that rpm can be converted to deb package using a utility called alien. I'll try it out tomorrow and hoping it would work. Just a side note, I hope hardware manufacturers would also include Linux drivers. I mean, I already gave them business by buying their product, so what's keeping them from supporting the OS I have so I can use their product without headache. Cheers! Gerald _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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