Quote Originally Posted by efc View Post
My Konica-Minolta 1350W laser printer installed easier in Xandros Premium ver than it does in xp. Winthin xp you have to install drivers from the mfg cd. In Xandros Premium I simply chose my printer from a menu and then identified the port.
I think that Compliments for this go more to the printer vendor than the distro, simply because they took the time to make their drivers available, which is what more vendors need to do.



Quote Originally Posted by cash_site View Post
Is it safe to assume that most hardware 1-2yrs old is well supported in linux?
Cash, I am running both Suse 10 and Ubuntu 5 (sunthin ) on an Abit BH-6 MB, PIII 550 w\512 ram. Both support all the HW in the system.

I'm also running the same Suse 10 on my workstation and it supports the dual Xeon procs, SCSI RAID plus both IDE and SATA hard drives (yes I'm using all 3 in it!) and everything natively. Gotta love flexibility in an OS...