The Ubuntu Live conference began yesterday in Portland Oregon with Mark Shuttleworth's keynote presentation. Shuttleworth, the Ubuntu project's charismatic leader, discussed a wide variety of topics relating to Canonical's business prospects and the future of the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
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Member since:2006-01-12
Linux's problem has never been high quality equipment and specialty hardware mostly due to its roots in universities.
The problem -although it's gotten a lot better in recent years- isn't an $50000 ultra-high resolution printer of which only 10000 have ever been built, but the cheaper by the dozen $24.95 crap that came with your PC, and your monitor, oh and another one with your cereals.
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-12
Good for you. I have been trying get the sound working on my lenovo 300 n100. Its been almost 4 months now, but I do not yet got it to "just work". The chipset and motherboard is also intel 845, so not really obscure. The only hack is to switch of acpi (which seems ok as acpi never works for any linux distro I have tried).
Member since:2005-07-06
using the snd-hda-intel driver?
also, a common mistake is that when alsa loads the driver for the first time, all volume settings are 0 and muted. so even if the driver loads you may not get sound out of it.
but yes, sound seems to be much more of a issue then printing these days.
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2005-07-06
on the topic of improving. i had a almost anticlimactic experience setting up a hp home network printer using gobolinux and kde.
a friend and mac user was talking to me on im about linux being problematic when it came to desktop tasks like installing printers.
while the conversation was going on i fired up kde's control panel, selected "add printer" and after entering the ip and port (the default was shown in the dialog and i used that), and selecting the printer from a list of available drivers, the test page printed fine (except the config defaulting to us letter while i was using A4. minor issue that was quickly sorted).
it was so simple that i was wondering if the printer would blow up the moment i turned my back to it or something.
linux have indeed come a long way these past years.