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Installing a printer to be used with PPC Linux is quick and effortless because every Linux distribution comes with tools that make the task easy. Red Hat-based systems come with graphical printtool client, while SuSE PPC Linux users can apply the yast command or yast2 client to configure a printer.

A wonderful update for Intel-based Linux users migrating to PPC Linux is that your older, Linux-supported parallel port printer can work with USB while running PPC Linux! If you got a legacy parallel port and would want to use it with PPC Linux on your Power Mac, the D-Link DSB-P36 USB parallel port printer adapter is indispensable, you are able to attach your parallel port printer and connect it to your computer’s USB port.

Setting up a parallel port or USB printer under Linux can be accomplished in a matter of a sew seconds. For example, under SuSE PPC Linux, launch the yast2 client. Choose the Hardware/Printer menu item, and then click the Launch Module button. You would see a dialog box with five different printers listed: Novell, parallel, remote, Samba, and USB.

If you have a USB printer, or a printer connected to the D-Link adapter, click USB and then hit on the Add button.

Choose a printer device name, like /dev/usb1p0 (if you have only one printer), and then click the Next button. You will then see a dialog box that lists a number of printer manufacturers and devices. Click on your printer’s manufacturer, like Hewlett Packard, and a list of supported printers for that manufacturer will appear.

Do not get nervous if you aren’t able to find the printer model that matches the one you are using. There are many printers on the market, but many printers from the same manufacturer and family will work with one or more printer drivers. Let’s take for examples, HP 658C USB printer functions quite well using the Deskjet 500 printer device driver. When you are done, click on the Next button.

You will be asked next to give your printer a name. Give your printer except the one that has been used in default. Remember this name as this will be used during printing.

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Many decisions and opinions in the Linux world are justified by the idea that the decision will help attract new users to Linux, but why should anyone care at all if other people use Linux? KillaGeorge recently posed the question directly in response to a recent post, titled “A Simple Feature of Ubuntu 8.04 That Could Be So Important:”

“I always wondered why linux users are always trying to convert microsoft users. Whats the deal with that? Who cares what other people use. I use linux and i’m happy with it. If my friends don’t want to use it then no sweat of my back. Who cares?”

The main reason for wanting more users to switch to Linux is that the more people use an operating system, the better it will be supported by hardware and software companies and, in the case of open-source software, there will also be more people to develop the operating system. In fact, a good example of this showed up earlier today.

With AMD open-sourcing their graphics drivers, many people are looking to nVidia to see if they will follow suit. Earlier today, an open letter to nVidia was posted that has already received 547 signatures at this time, yet even if this number grows to 1,000 or more, nVidia may still never respond. With Linux’s current market share, nVidia can continue to ignore people for as long as they want. That does not mean they will, but even if nVidia listens, they are only one of many companies that do not have open-source drivers or do not have Linux drivers at all. If Linux had a larger market share, companies would finally have to pay attention to the Linux world and release drivers for Linux.

Unfortunately, the issue is not as simple as more users being better. If Linux ever achieved a large market share, it would become the target of viruses, much like Windows is now. The question is how to find the perfect balance, so that Linux is widely supported, but not the target of viruses and spyware. Right now, Windows is obviously far over that perfect market share and Linux is way under. The closest may be the Mac, since most companies do support OS X, but, so far, there are no viruses for OS X in the wild. If you think I am advocating everyone switch to OS X, however, you are wrong. Apple has no intention of stopping their growth. Any day now the viruses will start to come for the Mac and each day it just gets more and more likely.

Hopefully this will not happen to Linux, but it seems hard to escape. Once an operating system gains enough momentum to make it to a significant market share, it is unlikely to stop and no matter what you tell me about the security of Linux, someone will find a way around that security. Perhaps Linux will really find a way to avoid this .

http://www.linuxloop.com/news/2008/02/29/why-attracting-more-users-to-linux-matters/

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I am recently switching over to Ubuntu as a full-time Desktop OS. One of the hardest parts of this though is having it pass the ever critical wife test. So far, wife testing is going well, as she is comfortable using firefox, openoffice and pidgin. But we hit a bump in the road recently when she needed to upload a bunch of pictures to Snapfish. She used to use a Snapfish utility in Windows to do bulk uploads. This option was not available for Linux users, and she certainly was not going to use the standard browser interface to upload a single picture at a time.

The answer? Nautilus Scripts!

Now I can’t claim the idea for my own. The following two posts helped me tremendously in getting this working.

http://heliolith.com/archives/2006/0…fish-on-linux/

http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/arch…from-nautilus/

Both had bits and pieces of functionality I wanted. All I had to do was blend them together.

1) Create a Google Mail account if you don’t already have one.

2) Add this Google Mail account to your Snapfish preferences to accept pictures from e-mail.

3) Install mutt and zenity if they are not already installed:
Code:
sudo apt-get install mutt zenity

4) Download the putmail.py python script;

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf…roup_id=122444

5) Extract and install the script:
Code:
tar -xvf putmail.py-1.4.tar.bz2
sudo ./putmail.py-1.4/install.sh

6) Create a mutt configuration file for your profile:
Code:
gedit ~/.muttrc

7) Enter the following data into the file and save it:
set sendmail=”/usr/local/bin/putmail.py”

Create a putmail directory in your home directory:
Code:
mkdir ~/.putmail

9) Create a putmail configuration file:
Code:
gedit ~/.putmail/putmailrc

10) Put your Google Mail information in it:
[config]
server = smtp.gmail.com
email = youruserid@gmail.com
username = youruserid@gmail.com
password = yourpassword
port = 587
tls = true

11) Download the following script:

http://ceitl.zanestate.edu/blog/wp-c…/05/2gmail.txt

12) Copy it to the Nautilus Scripts directory and rename it.
Code:
cp ./2gmail.txt ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/SendToSnapfish

13) Open the script file:
Code:
gedit ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/SendToSnapfish

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