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Upgrading to Dapper, TurboPrint issues

Posted by dcparris on · 3 comments
Linux DevCenter; By Carla Schroder 		Mail this story
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I upgraded two of my home systems from Breezy to Dapper Kubuntu. One is AMD-64, one is i386. I write about this stuff for a living, and would rather tinker than work anyday, so it here we are. The upgrade went OK, but not nearly as well as a plain-vanilla Debian installation. And the K/Ubuntu devs seem determined to make printing painful.

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Comments (3)

dthacker ·
Thanks for the warning Carla. Printing has frequently been the sticking point for folks that move from Windows to Linux at my LUG's installfests. I'll tuck this away for the next one. My ShipIt CD's are still a few weeks away, so I've got time to compile a nice list of gothchas to watch out for.

Dave
tuxchick2 ·
A couple other things to look out for are devfs/udev issues. These are kernel issues, not problems that Ubuntu invented. :) I wonder if clean installations have fewer problems than upgrades? At any rate, for the time being it might be wiser to stick to Breezy.
helios ·
there has been a barrage of complaints within the forums about the printing issues with this release. From what I can tell, the devs that are still taking questions are doing so from a bunker mentality...this isn't nearly as small of a thing as it was spun by the initial reports...

Not a good development for the UBUNTU-WILL-ROOL-THE-WURLD crowd

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