On Tuesday 08 January 2002 02:25 am, you wrote: > Hi Folks > > After a few months trying out XP (quite favourably) I have decided > to get back into murky waters and stick linux back on my machine. > Rusty is not the term for it. I have never had any alligience to > any distro, so dug out my old cd roms and found the only one that > the kids hadn't scrathed or ruined was mandrake 7.2. > > Seems strange though that the reccomended install doesn;t include > gcc or makefile but anyhoo. I think I will try again with a full > install and see how i get on. I am installing it on a spare > hardrive, and keeping xp as the default ( she wont use linux). > Problem is when i custom install with all the packages I want i run > out of space after installing other things. The HD has 2500MB. > Anyone reccomend somthing easily configurable, that will fit in > about 1.5GB? > > Anyone willing to copy me somthing? (I dont have broadband anymore > since i moved, and i dont wont to spend a week downloading a > distro, although i could get cheapbytes versions) > > Anyway on to why i wrote this message. I have a epson stylus colour > 580, and it is suported with gimp print. has anyone any experience > with this? I am going to install it with cups. Still haven't got > the new gimp installed which it needs as the feckin install missed > chunks of things i need. > > TIA > > Phil Deane > http://www.MiracleExpress.force9.co.uk >
You could try www.letsbuylinux.co.uk for a cheap distro -- Regards pete -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
