[Novalug] Slightly OT: What is the name

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Sun Jun 23 11:55:06 EDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 11:45:00AM -0400, Christopher Jones wrote:
> An opensource windows wouldn't guarantee your printer works. If it was 100%
> compatible then MAYBE the driver would work on it, maybe not. Point is if
> you can't look at the driver code because its close source you don't know
> what it does, you can't change it for your own purposes, its harder to
> reverse engineer around it,  and you can't know if it will work in your
> situation or not. If you can your best bet is to buy printers with known
> working drivers
> 
> This site is a really good place to start :
> http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html. Make sure you have this
> software installed and check the list to see if your printer is on it.

It is listed, recommended and fully supported.

Jon
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 9:49 PM, <cmhowe@patriot.net> wrote:
> 
> > List,
> >
> > Several years set about writing an open source version of Windows, don't
> > know what version. After a some time went by the decision was taken to
> > scrap what had been written and start over. What can anyone tell me about
> > the state of affairs?
> >
> > Here's why I'm interested. If you have followed my printing problem, you
> > know that the problem was that (a) the hp Laser Jet P1102w was nw, (b)
> > that it was possible to print anything created by Windows, any version (I
> > guess) and anything coming from the Apple universe. But not from Linux
> > (or, I suppose but don't actually know). I have a workaround: Give the
> > office manager of my church some stamps and envelopes and email what I
> > want printed as an attachment. Until hp gets its driver right.
> >
> > Then the epiphany: If the Windows open source effort is far enough along
> > to print, problem solved!
> >
> > Will I be lucky?
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
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> Chris Jones
> RHCSA

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