i have a HP Laserjet P3005 printer and i want to install it to my SUSE Linux Enterprise Server but i have this question before going installing it.

In the HP printer manual it says that the compatible OS for HP Laserjet P3005 is only the following: Windows 2000; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows Server 2003; Certified for Windows Vista(TM); Mac OS X v 10.2.8; Mac OS X v 10.3.9; Mac OS X v 10.4 or higher.

Does this mean that it's not compatible with the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server? and that i can't use my printer using SLES OS?

Can someone shed light on this? many thanks.

I went to HP's web site, there is a linux driver. Here is the link.

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport...&swEnvOID=2020

Not at all, HP supports linux very well. You often see these statements in the documentation because the majority of users will be using some flavour of windows.

I bet it doesn't say that those are the only compatible OSs. It may only list those in the compatibility section or it may say that those are the only supported OSs, but those are different things from explicitly saying that no other OS is compatible (like the next version of Windows, for example). It may even say that those are the only OSs for which a driver is supplied on the CD/DVD.

No, it doesn't mean that.
No, it doesn't mean that, either.
Either of those things could be true (but aren't). Usually, if you just have the printer plugged in and switched on at install time, CUPS does the detection and installs the driver 'automagically' and you don't have anything that you need to get from the vendor website. You might still want to get something from the vendor website if the OS that you are installing is old, though.