and a heap of printers have no available drivers?
I went through a lot of trouble to get the latest version of ubuntu
installed and, when I finally reached that point, ran into the above
obstacle.

I had the opposite problem when I installed Ubuntu at
a friends home, too many printer drivers :-) or printer system
or whatever... that was some year ago though so I hope that is
fixed since then(?)

He have a standard HP Laserjet 4 (there must be billions of them
and they last forever), but still I had to choose between in
a list of impossible-to-know things because if you selected
the default or the one at the top or so....
....your prints was written to the little display on the printer
instead of the paper! (a one line display with 16 chars)

:-D


Now that I read here that there are ubuntu-derivates that isn't
so extreemly memory hungry, why can't they fix so Ubuntu itself
work that way when starting on a computer with less memory?
You can't even start the standard Ubuntu liveCD with 128MB
(and not the "small" Xubuntu either)
but that isn't what this newsgroups is about I guess.

btw, I just saw that this thread is crossposted to
alt.microsoft-me too, is that newsgroup any different
from m.p.windowsme.general?