Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printing from Linux, Kubuntu/Ubuntu

Is there any need to have Linux in a VirtualBox or could you just boot 
to Linux on your computer - as a dual booting one?

I run laptops with Win7 [pro and home] with Ubuntu on one and Linux Mint 
on another.

There are some things I need to run on Windows, that are easier to use 
than any Linux counterpart.  But my default booting for these laptops is 
Linux.  I went to Linux as my default OS in the Spring of 2010 , when I 
bought this desktop.  I originally was using Linux before that on 
"spare" system when the cost of buying the needed software using Windows 
was getting too much for my budget. I found the needed software 
"functions and applications" for free with Linux [Ubuntu and others].  
Actually I defaulted to Ubuntu since its Live CD was the only one that 
allowed my HP laptop's audio to work "out of the box".

As for old brains, well after 3 strokes, I am lucky my younger brain 
still works.  I think "healthy exercise" for the brain is important, 
whether you are in you 40's or 80's.  My wife has end-stage Alzheimer's 
and I really know the importance in keeping you mind as active as you 
can to help reduce the effects of age on your mental abilities.

I am a little "slower" in doing things due to an illness that just will 
not go away, but I am learning to live with it, just like learning to 
live with what the strokes left me to work with.


On 01/24/2015 08:55 AM, Pertti Rönnberg wrote:
> Frank,
> Thank you very much for your soon reply  -- I was just working on the 
> installations.
> The printer seems to be working on the Windows so let us hope it will 
> work OK with the VirtualBox&Ubuntu too.
>
> Earlier 10-15years ago I used Windows&Ubuntu parallell but then I had 
> to rebuild my PC completely and for some reason
> never installed the Ubuntu again - perhaps too complicated -- but I 
> never gave up the idea skipping windows.
> Now I re-installed system&programs again and decided to start working 
> with Ubuntu again.
> Next step is to learn using Apache&SQLite for my need of databases. I 
> used to work with MSAccess but am not interested in
> spending money on purchasing and was told that SQLite is easier and 
> not so heavy as MySQL. Do not know yet.
> Anyway I find this interesting and think it is a healthy exercise for 
> an old brain too (75y)
>
> So any guides and ideas how I shall proceed to get SQLite(3) to run in 
> Ubuntu are welcome.
> Kind regards
> Pertti Rönnberg
>
>
> On 24.1.2015 14:22, CVAlkan wrote:
> > Pertti:
> >
> > If you are running Ubuntu (or anything else as far as I know) in a 
> > Virtual
> > Box, you don't have access to any hardware unless it is recognized by 
> > the
> > host system. But if your printer functions properly on the host 
> > system (and
> > you set up virtualbox carefully), it should work fine on Ubuntu.
> >
> > The issues I encounter all seem to be related to LOWriter, so if you 
> > have no
> > issues with that on your host, it seems to me fairly likely that you 
> > should
> > be ok. In any case, if it doesn't work you haven't lost anything.
> >
> > Just as a matter of curiosity, are you looking to a linux distro just 
> > to use
> > SQLite and Apache? Or was there some other consideration driving that
> > choice?
> >
> > Frank
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > View this message in context: 
> > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Printing-from-Linux-Kubuntu-Ubuntu-tp4136908p4137269.html
> > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.


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