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Linux course and NEU (eg. Northeastern)



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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 09:17:21 -0700 (PDT)
Vince McHugh <vince_mchugh at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
>    The $0.02 that I would add is that you should teach
> a segment on "Printing"! If Linux is going to conquer
> the Desktop both the Admins and the Users must be able
> to print. You should touch on both LPRng and CUPS,
> printing from Command line and from GUI Apps.
> 
>     For users maybe a simple parallel printing set up
> to a vanilla HP printer using the GUI. Foe Admins
> Network and local printing, command line and GUI
> tools, CUPS and LPRng.
> 
>     Printing is essential to The Linux Desktop (any
> desktop). Just try to leave your average user unable
> to print and see how clear that they make this point
> to their Sys Admin.
I agree. It may not be feasible to actually do this in class, but I can
show them how to do it. 


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