[sllug-members]: Novell & M$

[Michael Heath]

PPD files are NOT printer drivers. They describe the capabilities and
characteristics of a printer. With postscript compatible printers, nothing
more than this is needed on a Linux system.

Mike Heath
Mike.Thomas.Heath at gmail.com


On 11/20/06, Knight Walker <kwalker at kobran.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 17:55 -0700, rog wrote:
> > What I meant was.   Example:  I want to be able to use the standard
> Windows
> > printer drivers with Linux.  Or the standard Windows modem drivers with
> > Linux.  M$ has kept the use of Linux down by (smells like) sweetheart
> deals
> > with hardware manufacturers to make sure some hardware only works with
> > Windows.
>
> While it doesn't work for Winmodems (Which I avoid like the plague and
> am quite happy not having now that Wifi is ubiquitous), often times Mac
> OS X printer drivers (.ppd files) work with Linux thanks to the fact
> that Apple has adopted CUPS as their printing standard too.
>
> -KW
>
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