Digital BW, The Print

I've been hopefully following the Linux progress for some time, and they are
doing very well in the server market.  

But, for the desktop, are we really there yet?  I like the fact the IBM pays
for an ad during the Superbowl to push the concept, but I think they are
talking to the server field and people who work with computer technology for
a living.  What about the average B&W photographer who is not a computer
person?  

For me the question is whether I can easily turn my Dell into a dual OS
system and seamlessly switch between my Windows programs and QTR.  I'm not
at all promoting Windows, I just think that the average B&W photographer
needs something that is very simple, and I'd sure like to see this
technology (Linux and QTR) able to reach those people. 

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: px3n120x [mailto:px3n120x@...] 
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 8:18 PM
To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Getting started with QuadtoneRIP on Linux?

--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Alan Hyde"
<ahyde@b...> 
wrote:
> I agree.

Just found this on BBC which should encourage others to "see the light" :):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3436289.stm

Andu

> 
> I've just installed Gentoo linux after a break of 2 years from linux (I
last
> tried Debian). I'm impressed by how much the system has matured (using
KDE).
> I've got QTR working after some fantastic support from Roy. I can't say it
> was painless but my early results look like it may have been worthwhile. I
> certainly couldn't afford the alternative RIPS.
> 
> Regards from a lurker who has learned a lot from you guys.
> 
> Alan 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: px3n120x [mailto:px3n120x@y...] 
> Sent: Sunday, 1 February 2004 8:38 AM
> To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Getting started with QuadtoneRIP on Linux?
> 
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Roark"
> <paul.roark@v...> wrote:
> 
> > Philosophically, I'm a Linux-type guy, but without a lot of technical 
> > expertise, I'm not sure I want to take the time it seems to require.
> > Moreover, with one of my goals being to spread the B&W digital
> technology,
> > this just seems to be a hopeless OS route.
> 
> Without starting an OS war again, thanks to many others who didn't
consider
> Linux (*nix) "a hopeless OS route" we now have a very mature OS which
slowly
> but surely is taking away market from microsoft (more and more communities
> around the world are replacing Windows with Linux on the desktop) and
> developing new technologies. It may still be rough around the edges and it
> may still not be supported by major software companies but IBM and others
> will help change that.
> I don't print from Linux since OS X does it just fine with QTR but I owe
it
> to  Gimp-Print, CUPS (both Linux technologies) and QTR that I'm able to do
> it in style. Sometimes it has to get complicated before it gets simple, my
> advice is not to give up on good technology because it requires a little
> learning. QTR *is* the least expansive, best controllable way to do
digital
> B&W printing regardless of platform preferences, I encourage everyone to
> take the "pain" and try it.
> 
> Andu
> 
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