From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 26 14:39:34 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125DB16A41A for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk (mail.goodforbusiness.co.uk [81.19.179.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B4813C4CE for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:39:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Message-ID: <474AD605.7060300@goodforbusiness.co.uk> Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:19:49 +0000 From: Dominic Marks MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Desktop printing, a request for your experiences X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:39:34 -0000 List, Can anyone give me their experiences of desktop printing (OpenOffice/KDE/Gnome/Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, etc) recently? I haven't tried for a while but it was a pain to setup and maintain the last time I looked at it. If you are using this for "real-work" and you are getting good results please let me know what you are using (software and hardware ideally). The environment I would like to put this into is a family house, very small setup with 2 PCs and 2 printers. Currently both are Windows PCs but one is experiencing all of the classic issues with a multi-year Windows installation and since they are used exclusively for E-Mail and word processing I am interested in migrating one PC over to FreeBSD. .. If the solution was a Linux distro (box package, or otherwise) I would also be interested. ... I am not a subscriber so please keep me CC'ed in the discussion. Cheers Dominic