I decided to install a flavour of linux on my wife's laptop (A Dell D630). The key issue was to ensure that she would be able to print out some documents. I first installed Ubuntu, but it would not recognize her model of printer (Samsung ML-1865) - all it would print out said that it was the wrong driver. So after a couple of fruitless days working on that, I wiped the drive and installed Mint. I tried using a Brother HL-2140 printer - it installed the driver correctly, but when I attempted to print the test page, it spat out over 50 sheets of blank paper. Then I installed OpenSUSE, which had always been my favorite flavour of linux, mainly because it works well for wireless networking for Dell computers. With the Brother HL2140 it only spat out a single blank page when I sent a test page, and a single blank page when I sent a test document through Libre Writer. Attaching the Samsung HL-1865 printer, the laptop said it sent a page to the printer, and the printer flashed a few times, but no page actually made it out of the printer. FWIW, when the printer was attached to a Windoze notebook the test pages printed out fine. What am I missing here? Howard -- ZedNet Technologies visit us at http://www.zed.net