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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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Windows Vista has probably created the single biggest opportunity for the Linux desktop to take market share, Cole Crawford, an IT strategist at Dell, said in an address titled, “The Linux Desktop—Fact, FUD or Fantasy?” at the annual Linux World Conference & Expo here.
For example, a number of companies have moved back to Windows XP after deploying Vista, Crawford said, before quoting Scott Granneman, an author, entrepreneur and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, as saying, “To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just have to work on it.”
Microsoft has also owned the desktop for more than 15 years, Crawford said, “and so the only way for them to go is down. But Linux can only go up, and its growth potential is enormous. While Linux only has 1 percent of share on the desktop versus Microsoft’s more than 90 percent, that is changing, and the Linux desktop is expected to gain some share over the next two years,” he said.

The number of developers targeting Windows decreased by 12 percent in the last year, while their targeting of Linux has increased by 34 percent over the same period, recently released information from Evans Data shows, Crawford said.

The interoperability agreements that Microsoft has signed with Linux vendors, from Novell to Xandros and Linspire, have also had largely positive results so far, he said, adding that another plus was the fact that Linux development has shifted to a model in which a significant portion of the kernel is being developed by corporate entities.

On the downside, Crawford said, was the fact that no one actually owns

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The following are the sound instructions from my windows 98.vmx file. To get my missing sound connection working, I copied sound-related instructions from my file shown below.

sound.present = “TRUE” sound.startConnected = “TRUE” sound.fileName = “-1″ sound.autodetect = “TRUE” sound.virtualDev = “es1371″

ODF Converter for Debian and Debian-Derived Distros

ODF Converter makes it possible for people to read and write MS Word 2007 .DOCX files in OpenOffice.org . It’s word processor only, spreadsheets, etc. don’t run at this time with it.

I use Debian-testing. This should also work on Ubuntu, etc.

As anyone who’s looked knows, ODF Converter is distributed by Novell in .rpm format and not in .deb . As it turns out, this is an rpm which can be converted via the Debian alien utility, which can convert rpm format to deb or tarball or other formats. (if “other formats” interests you, $man alien for more information)

Get the files from here

Get both files, download them to anywhere convenient. You should be able to copy and paste each instruction directly into your console window.

So, as root (when the tarball is untarred, you’ll need root access to get the files into /usr):

# alien –to-tgz –scripts odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm

# tar -xzvf odf-converter-1.0.0.tgz

Don’t bother cd-ing to the directory the tarball expands to; there isn’t one. The files are all over the disk. Just copy the directories as indicated:

# cp /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/

# cp /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/

# cp /usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/

This worked for me, but the conversion takes a long time to run and is resource-intensive, I’d guess about 20 minutes or more on a 201 page .DOCX test document I found, and running about 99% CPU utilization in one core of my Athlon 4200×2 dual core processor.

The test document I used was Office Open XML Part 1 – Fundamentals. You might want to look for a shorter one.

It’s a lot faster for shorter documents. Turning this article into .docx took about 2 seconds. Turning my 34 page business plan into docx took about 30 seconds, opening it in OpenOffice.org took less than a minute. I’m not sure how this handles dual/multicore processors, I saw it using both cores for shorter documents and a single core for longer ones, which doesn’t make sense.

If you change your mind about a document conversion, the best way to shut down ODF Converter is to do ps -A and kill -9 processID. Shutting down the OpenOffice.org Writer window will probably leave the converter running and crash any other OpenOffice.org windows you’ve got running.

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