KC's Newest Linux user!

[Jim Herrmann]

Last night I converted my wife from Win98 to Mandrake 9.0!  I already had her 
using OpenOffice and Mozilla, so the transition was fairly easy, as far as I 
could tell.  The main applications she uses day in and day out were almost 
identical to what she was using in Windoze.  She likes the fact that Konqueor 
can preview jpg files.  It will be easier for here to sort through and delete 
all the digital pictures she has collected over time.  Overall, I think she 
likes it.

Her only complaint is that it was running kind of slow.  I have stopped 
several services that I don't think she needs, and that has helped a bit, but 
I noticed in top that a user lp is running programs imagetoraster and 
rastertoprint.  These appear to be related to CUPS, but what do they do?  I 
don't see these programs running on my machine.  That could be that my mchine 
runs them so much faster that I don't see them in top.  They seem to chew 
alot of CPU when they run, which is about every 10 seconds or so.  Each time 
they have new pids.  I'm wondering if I can get rid of these, and if so, how?  
Any ideas?

Thanks,
Jim