Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 09:43:13 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compile freebsd on ubuntu Message-ID: <61E224B3-26D2-48B3-A83E-6410B27374C4@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20210428071030.226f0ce980d18b4f82dacffc@sohara.org> References: <1619501943250.72149@ios.ac.cn> <202104280240.13S2eiwY073330@mail.lan.sohara.org> <20210428071030.226f0ce980d18b4f82dacffc@sohara.org>
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> On Apr 28, 2021, at 1:10 AM, Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> = wrote: >=20 > On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 02:39:43 +0000 > "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6722@twc.com> wrote: >=20 >> My question would be the other way around, how to cross-compile Linux >> from FreeBSD or NetBSD. >>=20 >> This would not be a full-fledged Ubuntu or other fancy distro, but = more >> comparable to FreeBSD or NetBSD base system. >=20 > I'd be inclined to use a jail with a Linux userland in it, they > work well - I have one running CUPS so that I can use the Brother = binary > drivers without losing my sanity (I tried to install them in FreeBSD = CUPS > once!). >=20 Is the World out of postscript (or PCL) printers? (thank you, Adobe, for = what you have done tin the past, postscript is one of these things!). = As one could use generic postscript (or PCL) driver. I must confess, our = printers are HP mostly. We dumped Xerox for good after they started = obsoleting 5 years old printers by making aftermarket supplies = manufacturing unprofitable first, then stopping manufacturing supplies. = Even though I do agree with xerox old motto (=E2=80=9CWe taught the = world how to copy=E2=80=9D), I dumped them for good. We used HP for over a couple of decades. 20 years old black and white = printer (HP 4050) used and abused a lot, still works. Some 5 years ago I = had harder time to choose HP printers for the department, but still was = able to get reliable model. No trouble to install it on CUPS print = server (which lives in FreeBSD jail - FreeBSD userland in jail, not = Linux). I only have one complaint about that printer: it dumps the job = which comes when printer is out of paper, I have found no way around = that idiocy. I would like to hear what people use these days to print from FreeBSD. = As I=E2=80=99ve heard complaints about HP printers department decline = (on this thread, which chime with my own feeling of beginning of that = process when I was looking for printers 5 years ago). OT Way back there were two ways to decipher HP in addition to its = "Hewlett-Packard" one. High Price Horse Power Which both were true in the day - they were actually about HP = measurement equipment (what has become Agilent Technologies IIRC), - = these electronics measurement devices were really expensive on one hand, = and they were worth every penny you paid for them on the other, = justifying both of the above. Valeri > --=20 > Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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