Home Sysadmin WAS: yum-less PSC 1610 driver install?

Chris Aitken caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org
Sun Mar 5 19:28:58 UTC 2006


interlug-vSRlqIl1h/9eoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org wrote:

>On Sunday 05 March 2006 09:35, Chris Aitken wrote:
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>>I would consider FC4 on both machines as the HP PSC 1610 driver is
>>probably there, but I would have to see is my machines will work OK
>>with that OS. 
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>  I would expect current releases to be better for you.  You are making 
>things a little more complicated for yourself by having to support two 
>different (and older) distros in RH8 and FC2.  
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>>I don't even have that interface (what is it called, anyway?) on the
>>AMD800 machine that comes up when I type http://localhost:631/ on the
>>P733 machine.
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>  "CUPS"
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>  Sorry my earlier replies weren't helpful.  Again, a current release 
>would be expected to have a working update mechanism (rather than 
>having to tweak it by changing to 'legacy')  If you don't have a 
>compelling reason to stay on the older versions and don't have the time 
>and motivation to bring them up to date by tweaking ... 
>
>  I've occasionally thought that there is a potential 'market' for a 
>home sysadmin service for Linux.  Would you outsource your admin tasks 
>so that you could have the Linux advantages without having to admin the 
>boxes yourself?  
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Actually I have already used such a service three times.

Chris

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