Re: Opinion Sought

[John Seago <john.seago@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I had enough of Micro$ft crashing on me in April, did a Google search on 
the net for an alternative OS and came upon GNU/Linux, I started with 
Mandrake 8, printing under CUPs using the printer I had, (which printed 
beautifully under Micro$oft), was very, very poor, but it did produce a 
readable letter, which I could then post. I need to be able to print off 
written material for the editors of those Journal's and periodicals I 
write for.

I moved up to Mandrake 8.1, (in order to migrate to an anti-aliased 
system), but found it was getting more and more like `Windows' so Iooked 
for another OS tried Debian, and settled on Slackware 8, I have managed to 
get everything I need running and configured the way I like it. The single 
exception is printing. When I first used ./SETUP I found my HP710C in the 
list of printers. Obviously I had trouble as I didn't get as far as 
producing a test page, however I am prepared to put in the time needed to 
learn. the HP710C is one of a very few printers that HP built which uses 
Windows to provide some of it's functionality, I simply asked for an 
opinion on which one of HP's current printers would be most compatible 
with Apsfilter. 
-- 
John Seago
Change is not synonymous with `progress'.