Re: [Dng] printing (was Re: Readiness notification)

2015-06-14 Thread LM
Hendrik Boom wrote: > I think that Brother is one of the companies that advertises actual > Unix support, and that my printer an HL-3170CDW, at least, accepts a > variety of networked protocols, including some that originated in Unix. > But I don't know how to access them without CUPS. > > There m

[Dng] printing (was Re: Readiness notification)

2015-06-13 Thread LM
Laurent Bercot wrote: >As for printing servers, I don't know, but I'd be surprised >if cupsd was the only possibility. > > And if it actually is the only possibility, then we have a bigger > problem than just sd_notify: it means that monopolies exist in free > software - real, existing monopolies

[Dng] Devuan and sneaker-net

2015-06-12 Thread LM
I started with Debian Squeeze on my desktop computer (since it was one of the few Linux distributions that would work with my hardware) and when it came time to update to Wheezy I did so by sneaker-net. I'd heard that Debian Jessie was out but I just didn't get around to trying to update my system