Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 5:24:47 -0400 From: "Robert Mcmorrow" <rmcmorrow@earthlink.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Your latest release, #4.0.. Message-ID: <41200065309244710@earthlink.net>
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--- Robert Mcmorrow --- rmcmorrow@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet. Dear FreeBSD,as it were, I've seen the "New Box" in the store, holding release Version 4--Superb graphics...er, at the bottom on the back, it says "Postscript Software Included.."..a look at the latest version of the handbook shows we'd still have to recompile the kernel and then scuff a printer-driver to get it to print on demand. For an OS like FreeBSD--which, as a newbie, I've tried and just from its feel alone (fast!),been very impressed by--why not,er, do up a BSD version of Red Hat Linux's Printtool? Or a printer-probe thingie? I say this because BSD's boot message,once I have it up and running, notices the make and model of my printer..but there's no connect- the-dots on printer activation..I still have to work on that printer- driver(I've got notes culled from the Handbook to pore over yet). Some of the tests suggested in the Handbook activate the printer,too, just like it says they will..so near, and yet a bit far..I'm not so hot at 'scuffing'(my word)code yet,since I'm still learning The Commands (on Linux..sorry). Possibly you're planning to import a setup program of your choice;heaven knows the news of a Major Printer Maker saying it'll put out Linux Printers makes me just say--God, it's open source, look at the books, is it that hard to get a few Linux Driver floppies going?? But I hope BSD simply automates printer setup: Experienced unix-family folk won't need it, and people like me will stop computer users on the street to say(waving a BSD carton or CD)"Have I got an OS hot-rod for you!!" PS I support recycling,natch;paper isn't renewable forever. Very Truly Yours--Robert McMorrow,a semi-newbie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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