New Install Reconmnedations

Hi,

Getting Fed up of issues with Ubuntu 8.04 and looking at jumping ship, but should I wait for 11.0 to be released hopefully in about a month or install 10.3 and all the updates and then do a dist-upgrade (I take it I can do an upgrade of SuSE without having to do a clean install)

On a sidenote when I do install hardware wise there is only one bit of hardware I am concerned about (as I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 with Ubuntu Pre-Installed) and that is my printer which is a HP Laserjet 1020, I know there is a driver for it from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ but to date I have never got this to work with SuSE 10.2 + it worked with no problems with 10.1 and works fine with Mandriva and Kubuntu.

Thanks,



Gavin,

This is a list of all the printers that SUSE 10.x will recognize in it's database...

HCL/Printers:http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Printers

If your printer is not on that list, you can install HPLIP which should recognize your printer.

Download:http://hplip.sourceforge.net/downloads.html (I'd suggest the Auto-install; seems easier).

Instructions (Auto):http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/install/index.html

Hope that helps.

This is a list of all the printers that SUSE 10.x will recognize in it's database...

HCL/Printers:http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Printers

If your printer is not on that list, you can install HPLIP which should recognize your printer.

Download:http://hplip.sourceforge.net/downloads.html (I'd suggest the Auto-install; seems easier).

Instructions (Auto):http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/install/index.html

Hope that helps.
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thanks, but the HPLip when I tried a couple of months ago didn't support my printer, but the zjs2foo does and works flawlessly with other distros, I think it might be an issue with SuSE, but I will try making sure that it isn't pre-installed and if it is uninstall and compile the driver from source.

I have found an article about a similar issue with SuSE 10.2 which I will try the fix and see if it works, this involves making sure that thwe driver is uninstalled before compiling and if prompted to download files when trying to install the driver to decline.