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|    Philo to Mike Easter    |
|    Re: Ubuntu, Mint & Fedora    |
|    02 Jun 24 17:45:07    |
      From: philo@privacy.net              On 6/2/24 5:37 PM, Mike Easter wrote:       > Philo wrote:       >> One thing I liked also was that it automatically detected and       >> installed my Brother laser printer that I had quite a bit of       >> difficulty to get to work with Ubuntu and Mint       >       > I recently booted a live Fedora and it easily recognized and embraced a       > Canon Pixma printer connected via USB to a WinXP desktop on the same       > network.       >       > I had recently attempted that w/ a MX Workbench which is not 'rigged'       > for desktop friendliness as much as admin tasks. I would've needed to       > know more samba than I normally use.       >                     I'm quite positively impressed.              If I open a terminal to run an app...if it's not installed, it simply       asks if I want to install it...then does so if I choose "Y"              I'll probably be using Fedora more and more              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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