So I’ve been a regular user of RedHat / Fedora distributions since RedHad 8.0. That’s been a while.

I’ve -never- had such trouble setting up a printer in my life as I have with Fedora Core 5.

For some reason, the system-config-printer utility would _not_ actually setup the print que. Ever. I tried and tried, I yum’ed to update all the stuff as much as I could, but I coudln’t get the HP laserjet 2300 with IP Printing through JetDirect to work for -anything-.

I finally broke down and used the cups interface (http://localhost:631) to add a print queue through the cups admin page. It worked!

The rest of FC5 I really like (aside from the new logo, which SUCKS if you ask me) and have been throughly impressed with. It keeps becomming a better and better desktop system for doing my work on — and I’ve been using RedHat Linux as my full time work desktop since late early 2003.

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