Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 10:11:59 +0530 From: "Baji J. Ram Rao" ramrao@bajirao.com Organization: Bajirao Technologies Private Limited To: linux-india-programmers@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Krishan kris8ul@yahoo.com, linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Making the baby HP Deskjets: 3320, 3325 or 3420 work

with Linux?

Reply-To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in

Experienced friends told us that Red Hat 7.3 and Red Hat 8.0 weren't stable enough, so best avoided. We're currently committed to RedHat 7.2.

Redhat 7.3 and 8.0 are not unstable in any way. In the bioinformatics division at TCS we are using all three versions and a significant speed-up has been reported for version 8.0 in CPU-intensive and memory-intensive applications that process huge amounts of protein and gene data. I know that there have been many negative reports of Redhat 8.0 but we use it day in and day out and not a single complaint. Try it yourself and don't let others prevent you from benefitting from the significant upgrades present in the new versions. After all, Redhat 7.2 is now roughly a year old. And do remember that the latest drivers come bundled with the latest releases.

Parul