Linux in Italian schools - five months later [LWN.net]

Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 2, 2006 15:50 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Linux in Italian schools - five months later by vblum
Parent article: Linux in Italian schools - five months later

One thing I havn't yet worked out is: Given this current world where every PCI and USB device identifies itself, why do I have to specify the driver? Why isn't when you plug in your USB printer it tells you which PPD file to use?

Maybe it's the case of my USB file being out of date, but it would be nice...

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Linux in Italian schools - five months later

Posted Feb 2, 2006 17:14 UTC (Thu) by carcassonne (guest, #31569) [Link]

Since last year (at least), SuSE 9.3's YaST suggests a PPD file. I tried it with a networked printer and a USB printer and in both cases the suggested PPD was the right one. What happens when the printer is out on the market since last Monday ? I don't know.

It's important to choose a 'good enough' distro to show Linux to people. As developers and technicians were hear buzzwords flying. Like 'Ubuntu' and 'Kubuntu' for instance.

- Did you get your NTP client working ?

- Just Excellent ! I just had to create this config file and bootscript...

This of course is not good (and certainly not factual regarding 'K/Ubuntu) since I haven"t tried it).

A good way to make people stick with Windows ? Introduce them to Linux using Slackware.

I think a highly configurable-user-firendly updated distro should be used for this purpose, which is not necessarily the latest developer's buzzwords.