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Printing for the Impatient using ApsFilter

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the putting-words-on-paper dept.

BSD Forums writes "While Unix has roots in document formatting and layout, configuring printers has always required more black-arts arcana. This hasn't been helped by the appearance of low-cost commodity WinPrinters. Fortunately, tools like Ghostscript, gimp-print, and Apsfilter make configuring printers much easier. Michael Lucas demonstrates quick and dirty -- and working -- printer configuration."

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  1. Re:shit shit shit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    we are alive BSD and have lives, BSD on the other hand is dying and soon to be dead.

  2. More BSD Problems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you BSD fanatics? I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a BSD box (a PIII 800 w/512 Megs of RAM) for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this BSD box, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even Emacs Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various BSD machines, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a BSD box that has run faster than its Windows counterpart, despite the BSD machines faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 800 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that BSD is a "superior" machine.

    BSD addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a BSD over other faster, cheaper, more stable systems.

  3. Re:OT: Thinknig about trying BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    cons:
    generally slower, less scalable in terms of algorithms and how parellel the kernel is than Linux.

    It is considered more stable than Linux by its proponents, but no studies have indicated one way or the other.