[...] that the printer doesn’t play nice with. Quite the opposite is true, it works perfectly with Ubuntu via my Airport Extreme, it is in fact Windows 7 that doesn’t play nice with the printer (OS X works on it, as does [...]

Really a big help. I didn’t even know about localhost:631 and I have been using linux for about 10 years.

I don’t see anything relevant in Wine. I actually was able to get my Airport working with a Windows PC.
I still can’t connect to the router/internet with my Karmic laptop, though. Pardon my ignorance, but where are the wifi settings in Karmic? I am using WiFi Radar to search for and connect to my network, but I can’t get past the ‘Aquiring IP Address’ loading window…

Unfortunately I’ve never tried the Airport utility in Wine, though I may give it a try later and see what happens.

As a wild guess, I’d say it’s a setting somewhere within Wine that relates to networking, so try to have a look for anything to do with that

Sounds good. I am trying to set up my Airport Express for the first time in a new location. I recently wiped my Windows laptop and installed Karmic. I have the Express Utility running in Wine, but it will not recognize my Airport. Any ideas/suggestions??

How do you figure that Apple created it, if they just hired the guy who created it? You give Apple a lot of credit…

OS X is a blend of BSDUnix and the Next OS. It shares a lot of things with Linux, having the same lineage.

I think you have it backwards — Apple uses open source technology in its platform because it works well. It doesn’t very often create something and give it back to the community.

[...] Joe Barker: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) & Airport Extremes on Planet UbuntuTopics: AirPort, MacBook, Bonjour [...]

I don’t like Linux because I had always problems in installing it on my computer Windows is easy to install but hard to use – so which OS we should use?

I’ve always found that Ubuntu works a lot better with Mac than with Windows. Printing is one thing that those two operating systems have got very right.

Karmic has always been a very good development release since I’ve started using it in June.
The only problems it has are shutdown issues — too often your root partition is damaged when booting up again and the shut down button doesn’t work; GDM restarts — and Flash player issues — YouTube and other websites don’t respond on clicks.

Cheers Joeb, this is good to know. After you’ve had a bit more time with it, maybe you could discuss problems you’re having, if any!

For me I’m hoping it’ll work with my P4 single core computer. Even with over a gig of ram, basic apps like Rhythmbox with Pulseaudio stuttered (This isn’t the case with WMP with WinXP). If I can’t get the perfomance I need, I may as well buy a new computer, and if I do that, I’ll have Windows 7 on by default. Sure I’ll dual boot it with Ubuntu Studio Karmic, but I’d like to be independant from Microsoft.