CentOS and filePro printing

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Tue Sep 27 09:00:52 PDT 2011


When asked his whereabouts on Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 09:44:39AM -0400,
scooter6 at gmail.com took the fifth, drank it, and then slurred:
>   Interesting....well, apprently in Linux, or with the PPD driver I
> installed, filePro has to have the '-o raw' added

That is common.

>   All in all, the actual hardware isn't tremendously different on the two
> servers (SCO v Linux)
>   SCO has Pentium 2.8 CPU, 2GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge
>   Linux has 2 x Xeon 3.2 w/4GB RAM on a Dell PowerEdge
>   Both have RAID 1

The CPU difference is huge.  The Pentiums, at -best-, had hyperthreading.
The Xeons are fully multicore, either dual or quad depending on model, with
much bigger caches.  The bus speed is probably twice what it was, as well.
Don't go purely by GHz...it's not an apples:apples metric.

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