Kamel Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 I would have to recommend grub. It is very robust and has all the options you could want. I'm not sure if the WinXP boot manager would play nice with linux or not. I'd suggest using a grub bood disk (usually made during the OS install) and using it to boot into windows. A bit slower, but less risky. i second grub, i have had lilo fubar my system like 4 times now (no exaggeration). ever since the last time i just decided to use grub. now i know how to fix it if i do mess it up, but it's still a better idea to use grub IMO. seems to be more stable and powerful anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest culinist Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 I third grub. To me it is much easier to configure. And have never had an issue with it that I couldn't overcome. As for printing I just installed the hpijs print driver for my OfficeJet 6110 and away I went. Haven't got the scanner working yet, but then again I haven't scanned anything in years anyway. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamuso Posted June 19, 2005 Posted June 19, 2005 Linux printing experiences ... What is everyone else using to print (and does it work well for you)? CUPS with IPP setup to share my hp laser with my wife's winxp machine Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nothing Posted June 20, 2005 Posted June 20, 2005 I recently set up a box some friends with a Canon i550 printer. I tried a couple different free drivers but none of them worked well. I ended up going with the Turboprint driver. It costs like $30 to get rid of the watermarks.... but it works very nicely. Oh.... and GRUB all the way. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest culinist Posted June 20, 2005 Posted June 20, 2005 Yo King good to hear from ya. I've heard that cannon printers are not supported very well in linux. It's a shame to have to pay for drivers....as long as it was worth it though, I guess the other $1,000's of free software makes up for it:) cul Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
king of nothing Posted June 20, 2005 Posted June 20, 2005 Yeah.... paying for drivers sucks. But it is a nice driver.... and I'm not sure they ever actually paid for the upgrade from trial version. The trial version watermarks everything but 'draft' quality..... but the draft quality is about the same as the best resolution I could find with free drivers. And if you're printing small photos you can sometimes avoid the watermark (although it prints in a different place every time). And you heard right... Canon printers aren't supported very well in linux. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bolshevik Posted June 21, 2005 Posted June 21, 2005 i run linux, i run slackware -- i love slackware, and i really don't think anything stacks up to it in the linux distro world. believe me, i've tried just about all of them (but not much bsd yet). I love Slackware too, along with Gentoo. It was really refreshing putting in a clean Slackware installation after messing around with a bloated Mandrake distro. Although, I have to admit when I first tried Slackware I reinstalled it at least 10 times trying to figure out what partition scheme I should use and what packages to install. It was all worth it when I got my system the way I wanted it. I had Slack/FreeBSD dual boot on my last laptop but I didn't really mess around with FreeBSD because I was happy that I had Slack working great. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
karl pell Posted June 22, 2005 Posted June 22, 2005 http://www.geekinformed.com/content/view/357/1/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest culinist Posted June 22, 2005 Posted June 22, 2005 Typical MS BS. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
karl pell Posted June 28, 2005 Posted June 28, 2005 Kyle Rankin's review of yet (soon)-to-be released knoppix 4.0 DVD@o'reilly developer weblogs. Rankin is the author of Knoppix Hacks (o'reilly... surprise,surprise) http://www.onlamp.com/pub/wlg/7274 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
e_lion_1 Posted June 28, 2005 Posted June 28, 2005 Curiousity has gotten the better of me...is anyone running something that is not Linux or Windows? Like say BeOS? or one of the *BSD varients? Maybe even Qnx ... I haven't tried one of these for a while now, but I might just do so in a coffee induced state... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
txmale36 Posted June 28, 2005 Posted June 28, 2005 all i know about is linux and winblowz. i would be afraid to use anything else fearing it might screw up my computer and not know how to fix it lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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