Hopefully you'll indulge a reasonably competent Windows person, but complete ignoramus WRT Linux.
I use an old 300Mhz or thereabouts AMD PC as a print server. It's on 24hrs a day, running XP (yes, I know that's daft and slow, but it happened to be convenient....).
I don't run anything else on it, except for a P2P file share programme from time to time (eDonkey, used to share legal stuff, I might add).
If I switched to Linux, could I still do what I currently do?
Do I need to buy things like new print drivers for the printer or does Linux support the Epson ones?
Does software written for Windows run under Linux?
Sorry if these questions are completely barking, but I've been curious about this for some time.
VP